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Quotes About Worth

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
~ Voltaire
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
~ Henry Drummond
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
~ John Keats
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
~ William Morris
It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.
~ Swami Muktananda
They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.
~ Kyra Davis
If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?
~ Harry Chapin
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
~ Chuck Norris
Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?
~ Confucius
If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.
~ Marie Dressler
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
~ Khalil Gibran
I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
~ Berthe Morisot
Each man in his way is a treasure.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
~ Democritus
One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.
~ Deborah Kerr
In some ways, the battlefield is more civilized than court," Lian said, somewhat wistfully. "A man's worth is exactly how much glory his actions bring to his general." Her tone hardened. "Here, a man's worth is calculated by what he says and by what others say about him.
~ Neal Stephenson
They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
~ Ned Vizzini
Money's awfully nice to have. In fact, all things considered, I think, 'Rene, that it's even worth the price.
~ Nella Larsen
If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Banknotes (which originated in seventh-century China) are pieces of paper which have next to no intrinsic worth. They are simply promises to pay (hence their original Western designation as 'promissory notes')
~ Niall Ferguson
and those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Love requires sacrifice, but it's worth it
~ Nicholas Sparks