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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
-Lin-Chi
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
-Earl Nightingale
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What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
-Lord Palmerston
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
-Francesco Petrarch
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Each shot is important.
-Gary Player
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
-Alexander Pope
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
-Frederick William Robertson
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-John D. Rockefeller
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
-Bertrand Russell
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
-George Santayana
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Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
-Elias Schwartz
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Much Ado About Nothing,
-William Shakespeare
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
-Adam Smith
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
-Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence.
-Edward Thomas
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Physicists know what's important, but they don't know what is true. Mathematicians know what's true, but they don't know what is important.
-Source Unknown
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Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be.
-Source Unknown
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Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.
-Source Unknown
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When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.
-Source Unknown
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You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
-Denis Waitley
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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
-John Webster
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Books about Worth
