Top 100 Worth Having Quotes
#1. Anything worth having is worth busting your ass for.
Tabatha Coffey
#2. Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.
T.H. White
#3. Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.
Elizabeth Goudge
#4. In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
Gore Vidal
#6. You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#7. We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come.
James A. Michener
#8. Having less power doesn't mean you are of lesser worth and therefore don't have anything to offer
Arlene Dickinson
#9. People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton
A. J. Burnett
#10. Until Self-realization is attained; it is not worth having a fixed-view at any place, it is not worth having habitual-devotion at any place and it is not worth stopping anywhere.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
Steven D. Levitt
#13. If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
Kyle Chandler
#14. It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.
Kim Gandy
#16. He's worth having. All I got was two fake lawsuits." "Seems like Morgan's value just went down, as part of a credible
Lee Child
#17. I don't want easy. I want the impossible. I want love so thick, I drown in it; it's the only thing worth having and, I'm sorry Kona, you're a nice guy when you're not acting like an entitled jackass, but I really don't think you're capable of being anything more than that.
Eden Butler
#18. When adultery walks in, everything worth having walks out.
Woodrow M. Kroll
#19. Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
#21. Angel was someone he'd never imagined having in his life, but always hoped for. She was more than worth the wait, and he was never letting her go.
Katie Reus
#23. A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
George Horace Lorimer
#24. By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.
Anna Quindlen
#25. She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names.
Robin McKinley
#26. With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381
Joe Hill
#27. Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
L. Frank Baum
#28. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.
L.M. Montgomery
#29. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
Herbert Spencer
#31. Look, man. Nothing worth having comes easy. You gotta fight for what you want in this life. You taught me that. Just thought you might need a reminder.
Jennifer Bonds
#32. I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.
Jessica Lynch
#33. If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
Rajneesh
#34. An experience which seeks not to change you, is one not worth having.
Xela Ffonrims
#35. Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
Eknath Easwaran
#36. I've stopped talking because there's really nothing left to say and there's this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I'm even having a heart attack, but it doesn't seem worth mentioning.
Suzanne Collins
#37. I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
Elif Shafak
#38. Courage is the only Magic worth having.
Erica Jong
#39. His thumb moved slowly over my cheek. All of this. Having you. It's worth- anything
L.A. Weatherly
#40. Nothing worth having is easy. The same goes for people. The ones who take cold, hard guts to get inside of are the most worthy of all. The ones you have to fight for.
L. H. Cosway
#41. Having a baby is different from all the ordinary ways of being hurt. it's worth it all. Other pain isn't worth anything, but that is.
Ruth Park
#43. But I, who am old, who have done what I must do, who stand in the daylight facing my own death, the end of all possibility, I know that there is only one power that is real and worth the having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#44. Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
The only vengeance worth having on sin
is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
George MacDonald
#45. Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.
Sarah Mlynowski
#46. Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C.S. Lewis
#47. Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.
Tite Kubo
#48. No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
John Vanbrugh
#49. I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.
Elizabeth Berkley
#50. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
Ivor Novello
#53. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance
to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
#54. They left a trail of hopscotch behind them, Mellie always thinking of ways to make it harder. They'd be jumping along in the dust, barefoot, with licorice drops in their mouths, feeling as though they had run off with everything in that town that was worth having.
Marilynne Robinson
#55. If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.
Deborah Gregory
#57. Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
Ashley Purdy
#58. If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.
Eckhart Tolle
#59. To achieve success you will have to work hard and pray hard. Nothing worth having comes easy.
Jeanette Coron
#60. If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable.
Christopher Hitchens
#61. If a relationship comes with conditions apply, it's not worth having.
Saru Singhal
#62. Haul, v.: Yes, love will bend you over, make you strain. That is the burden of having something worth carrying forward.
David Levithan
#63. know that everything happens for a reason. You are where you're supposed to be. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Shelly Crane
#64. God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.
Marty Rubin
#67. Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about,
Oscar Wilde
#68. Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
Ronald Reagan
#69. It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is worth having, and conducive to happiness. Not fame, but that which deserves to be famous, is what a man should hold in esteem.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#70. I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It's more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
Vivienne Westwood
#71. Anything worth having is worth struggling to achieve.
Kelsey Keating
#73. Child: "The Major and the soldiers and Mycroft told me what war is like. They say it's the second worst thing in the world."
Man: "That's an interesting definition. What did they say is the worst thing?"
Child: "Not having anything worth fighting for in the first place.
Ada Palmer
#74. Goals that are not frightening are not worth having.
Tina Brown
#75. Sometimes a hard sacrifice must be made for a future that's worth having
Tom Branson
#76. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.
Nikki Rowe
#78. There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things.
Adam Bagdasarian
#79. The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.
Paul Bowles
#80. An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.
Martin Margiela
#81. Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
Virginia Woolf
#83. Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking.
V.E Schwab
#84. Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.
Susie Derkins
#85. What he called his own personal night was about the feeling of being nothing, of having no worth, of having spent himself in a war nobody cared about, and having given up everything that was important and good.
Stephen Hunter
#86. Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
Louisa May Alcott
#87. I've set and met my career goals and I'm having tremendous professional success. But it's cost me my personal and family life. I don't know my wife and children anymore. I'm not even sure I know myself and what's really important to me. I've had to ask myself - is it worth it?
Stephen R. Covey
#88. I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it's not worth it.
Jennifer Lawrence
#89. Just because fate finds us our perfect match doesn't mean it's always easy and we don't have to work at it. Anything worth having takes fighting for sometimes.- Victor Marius
Joyee Flynn
#90. I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.
David Hare
#91. Everything that's worth having hurts in some way or other.
Vina Delmar
#93. Answer me something. This life, where you get to meet people and know them, and become friends, and then in a few days or a few weeks, either they leave or you do...is it worth it? I am not sure. I think so. Maybe having your heart broken like that is what keeps it open.
James Maskalyk
#94. Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left ...
Vera Brittain
#95. There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute.
M.F. Moonzajer
#96. Just because a relationship ends, does not mean it's not worth having.
Sara Mlynowski
#97. Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
Kevin Smith
#98. Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.
Ghostface Killah
#99. You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
John Vanbrugh
#100. Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
Albert Ellis
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