Top 100 Worth Having Quotes
#1. Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You know, one of the reasons people often turn to alcohol or drugs is that they can't deal with complications.
Catherine McKenzie
#2. Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis.
Gertrude Lawrence
#3. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.
John Burroughs
#4. Even when it seems things are just not going your way do not lose your focus. Rather, that is the time to really dig your heels in and keep on going for that goal. Anything in life that is of value and worth having does not come easy.
Emeralda Savage
#5. It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.
Carl Sagan
#6. Nothing in this world worth having is perfect.
J.A. DeRouen
#7. ...khalepa ta kala...It means that that which is worth having--the good, fine, honorable, and noble things--are difficult to attain...It means something else as well...It means 'beauty is harsh'.
Cassandra Clare
#8. Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt
#9. While most are dreaming of success, winners wake up and work hard to achieve it. Anything worth having is hard work.
JB Lexington
#10. Any man worth having will wait for his woman to be ready. How can I not return the favor?
Barry Lyga
#11. I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
Freya Stark
#12. Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Alice Munro
#13. There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
Christopher Hitchens
#15. Loghain shook his head in disbelief. "Maker's breath, man, aren't you suppose to have some dignity? Somewhere?"
"Me? Dignity?"
"Being the supposed future King and such."
"I think Rowan took my dignity."
She snorted derisively, folding her arms. "There was nothing else worth having.
David Gaider
#16. Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
William Gaddis
#17. There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
Gene Wolfe
#18. When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
Rachel Simmons
#19. It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed, my escape had been a victory, merely by having enriched my heart with the friendship of these wonderful people. No, I was not sorry. I had done it.
Henri Charriere
#20. Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.
Calvin Coolidge
#21. But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
John Perry Barlow
#22. That which is worth telling is not worth having.
Raheel Farooq
#23. Any man who would deny you dessert isn't worth having.
Shanna Swendson
#24. Love cannot be bought, and if it can, it is not a love worth having.
Elizabeth Manley
#25. Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. For what is better than love? Imagine a world without the sun, a world without the smile of a baby or the flight of a butterfly, all of which are manifestations of love. A world without love is not a world worth having
Alexandra McBrayer
#27. An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.
D.H. Lawrence
#28. I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.
Donna Lynn Hope
#29. Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
Charles Stewart Parnell
#30. Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.
Augusten Burroughs
#31. There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
Terry Pratchett
#32. I want us to be together, Evelyn, which I know won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever comes easy. If there's something you want, you have to work hard to have it. And I want you.
Jaci Burton
#33. I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
Lucy Larcom
#34. The pain was the risk of commitment. But nothing worth having could be had without risk.
Dean Koontz
#35. He said, 'I like to see some spirit in my women. I like spunk and the fire in the eye. A woman like that is worth having,' but that was before I kicked him in the groin.
Carol Emshwiller
#36. In my experience, people who don't stick around during the hard times weren't worth having around anyway.
Kimberly Belle
#37. Nothing a woman gives is worth having unless she gives it of her own free will.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.
W.C. Fields
#39. Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God. The endeavour to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realization.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
Russell Brand
#41. And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?
Plato
#42. The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
F.H. Bradley
#43. As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
David Brainerd
#44. Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
Haruki Murakami
#45. Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.
Louis Riel
#46. Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.'
It was her version of Polonius' speech to Laertes. With that wisdom in my pouch, I was to go out and buy my future.
Maya Angelou
#47. Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.
Robin Williams
#48. I won't lie and say it's been easy, but nothing worth having ever is, right?
Aimee Carter
#49. If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?
Donna Lynn Hope
#50. Any relationship worth having is worth deepening by taking regular, loving actions.
Kate Northrup
#51. Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
Louisa May Alcott
#52. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Edgar S. Brightman
#54. Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.
H.D.F. Kitto
#55. Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.
Richard Ford
#56. An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
Mark Van Doren
#57. Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.
Bill Crawford
#58. It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#59. The River ... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!
Kenneth Grahame
#60. An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!
Marie Corelli
#61. I can promise you one thing. It'll be mad and passionate. Because I don't believe mediocre sex is worth having.
Leylah Attar
#62. Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.
Caroline B. Cooney
#63. Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.
Maria Cantwell
#65. When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.
Omar Suleiman
#66. We, as licensed protectors of the species and members in good standing of the master-class of the race, by the power invested in us by those who wish to survive and reproduce, vow to enforce the fiction that life is worth having and worth living come hell or irreparable brain damage.
Thomas Ligotti
#67. Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge?
Mary Balogh
#68. He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
Jodi Picoult
#69. It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.
Kenneth Grahame
#70. It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.
Katie Ashley
#71. If 'All'
quite seriously all
'for love' is implicit in the Beloved's attitude, his or her love is not worth having. It is not related in the right way to Love Himself.
C.S. Lewis
#72. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati Roy
#73. It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin
#75. When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.
Sherry Argov
#76. People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.
John Brunner
#77. Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty
Louisa May Alcott
#78. Nothing worth having is easy to get.
Andy Ogle
#79. My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.
Robin Hobb
#80. An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it's actually worth having other people be offensive. I'd much rather have both than have neither.
Nick Harkaway
#81. Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.
Josh Beckett
#82. You are both rich my friends ... And your riches are the only riches worth having, the riches of content.
L. Frank Baum
#83. I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled in us that nothing worth having comes easy.
Jamie Eason
#87. If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
L. Frank Baum
#88. Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.
JR
#89. I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don't really know what else is worth having.
Martha Gellhorn
#91. But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.
Bruce Cockburn
#92. A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
Nora Roberts
#93. Do you know how few men there are worth having?
Glen Duncan
#94. No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love
Katie Kacvinsky
#95. It'd hardly be worth having a brother at all, if you couldn't smack him in the head every once in a while.
Lois Greiman
#96. In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The
Jean Plaidy
#97. Anything worth having takes work, Abby," he says softly.
Lauren Miller
#98. If it's not worth fighting for, run from it, because it's certainly not worth having in your life.
Christopher Mark Heben
#99. A life worth having is a life worth taking.
V.E Schwab
#100. nothing in this world is worth having or doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
Mark Messick
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