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We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
-Scottish Proverb
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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
-Proverb
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
-Proverb
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'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
-Joseph Addison
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
-Pearl Bailey
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.
-Claudius
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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
-Noel Coward
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
-Charles Dickens
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
-Wayne Dyer
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
-Henry Fielding
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
-Johann von Goethe
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Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!
-Marion D. Hanks
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The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.
-Bob Hawke
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We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
-Doug Horton
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The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
-William James
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No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.
-Samuel Johnson
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
-Walter Savage Landor
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
-Doug Larson
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Books about Worth
