A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.
— Grit
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
— Lin-Chi
Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
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.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
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.
Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.
When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.