Evaluating Something

Nothing is worth more than this day. - Goethe

Power tires only those who do not have it. - Giulio Andreotti

An ounce of mother is worth a tone of priest. - Spanish Proverb

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. - Pierre Beaumarchais

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. - Elbert Hubbard

I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. - Alexander Hamilton

Life is the biggest bargain - we get it for nothing. - Yiddish Proverb

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb

All that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carroll

There's no educational value in the second kick of a mule. - American saying

Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. - Catherine Pulsifer

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. - George Bernard Shaw

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The value of a leader is directly proportional to that leader's values. - Unknown

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. - Will Rogers

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. - Alvin Ailey

Bad times have a scientific value. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. - Ernest Hemingway

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. - Henry David Thoreau

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. - F Scott Fitzgerald

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - H L Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. - H L Mencken

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. - Elvis Presley

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. - Sharron Angle

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance. - Michael Burgess

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. - Joan Didion

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get it. - Arthur Brisbane

If you want something out of life you have to go out there and get it, because it is not just going to be given to you. - Kelvin Waites

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now, for surely it will be worth it in the end. - Sanjo Jendayi

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. - Zig Ziglar

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula. - Louis Orr

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. - Ernest Hemingway

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good. - Ruth Benedict

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown