42 Worthwhile Quotes

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it's easy to lose sight of the wisdom and inspiration that can guide us through challenges and triumphs alike. Quotes have a unique power—they can encapsulate profound truths in just a few words, provide comfort during tough times, and motivate us to pursue our dreams with renewed vigor. In this post, we've handpicked 42 of the most worthwhile quotes that promise to spark inspiration, provoke thought, and encourage reflection. So, take a moment to pause and let these words of wisdom resonate with your heart and mind.

1. “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” - J.K. Rowling

2. “Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.” - Ayn Rand

3. “Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4. “Don't ever reject a smallwhen you can't take it all.” - Toba Beta

5. “Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.” - John Ortberg

6. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

7. “On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.” - José Ortega y Gasset

8. “The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)” - Wendell Berry

9. “It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.” - Sarah Dessen

10. “The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.” - Yukito Kishiro

11. “Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?” - Dean Koontz

12. “You are not worthless. Even if you've been called that your entire life.” - Kevin Walker

13. “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” - Steve Jobs

14. “A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.” - David Winter

15. “All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

16. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.” - Criss Jami

17. “Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.” - Criss Jami

18. “Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.” - Criss Jami

19. “Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.” - Criss Jami

20. “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.” - Criss Jami

21. “Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?” - Mira Grant

22. “Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth” - L.M. Montgomery

23. “No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.” - Takayuki Yamaguchi

24. “[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.” - Moderata Fonte

25. “He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.” - Charles Martin

26. “On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.” - John Lanchester

27. “You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it” - Criss Jami

28. “I've learned, that not all worth is measured by price. I've found so many gems that didn't cost me much!” - C. JoyBell C.

29. “Jei įžeidžiau jus, Jūsų Šviesybe, vadinasi, nusipelnėte kiekvieno priekaišto.” - Indu Sundaresan

30. “We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.” - Francis Chan

31. “What we know matters but who we are matters more.” - Brené Brown

32. “If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.” - Shannon L. Alder

33. “At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it." "Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.” - Jessica Sorensen

34. “If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.” - Dejan Stojanovic

35. “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.” - Stewart O'Nan

36. “In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing.  And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

37. “The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.” - Criss Jami

38. “If I could bronze my love, it’d be worthy of a silver medal.
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39. “I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.” - Ann Landers

40. “...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.” - Ernest Becker

41. “There’s a certain worth that can only be given to us by God. You see, if you think about it, worth has nothing to do with the object. Worth has everything to do with how much someone is willing to pay for the object. God paid for each and every one of us with His son’s life. That gives me chills. That makes us worth a lot.” - Cole Ryan

42. “It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.” - Criss Jami