Worth Keeping Quotes

#1. My mom used to say that a man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.
-Serena

Larissa Ione

#2. There were things worth keeping and things worth letting go of, and figuring out which was which wasn't that easy." -Jane

Tara Altebrando

#3. The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns the ship of your heart that he is a stone.

Mikl Paul

#4. The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Izaak Walton

#5. Fuck easy, Ceri. If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world.

Ilona Andrews

#6. A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

K.E. Garvey

#7. The only people worth keeping around are the ones who drive you crazy.

Audrey Bell

#8. My dad once told me that one day I'd meet someone who drives me so crazy I want to strangle her and yet never would because I can't bear for her to be gone. Well, that's when I'll know I've met a woman worth keeping.

Ella Frank

#9. If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?

Heather McKenzie

#10. You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

Michael Shannon

#11. People who make time for the sadness in your life, not just the joy, are worth keeping around.

Catherine Doyle

#12. Sometimes everything inside us must be torn apart. Only then can we sort through to what is truly worth keeping.

Edward Fahey

#13. Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Not everyone is bound for a life of substance abuse and addiction - but the moment you think you're untouchable is the moment you're most likely headed for trouble. If you're going to be obsessed with something, make God your choice. That's a habit worth keeping.

Max Lucado

#15. I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.

Gary Gygax

#16. Paranoia was one of the few habits that was worth keeping.

Genevieve Cogman

#17. Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.

Larissa Ione

#18. I've learned that just because I don't know how to break up with someone, doesn't mean they were worth keeping.

Steve Maraboli

#19. Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

Abraham Lincoln

#20. I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

Christina Ricci

#21. No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Hume

#22. But Aunt Anne has encouraged me to continue. In many regards, life itself is a voyage, she says. We never know where its winds and currents will carry us, she says, or what adventures lie ahead, and surely it's worth keeping record of this journey as well.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#23. Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful

Cynthia Lord

#24. I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

Rory Bremner

#25. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Cynthia Lord

#26. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.

Jane Hirshfield

#27. But anyone with witch-blood in their veins was worth keeping an eye on.
Or Thirteen.

Sarah J. Maas

#28. Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting, you're doing it in the context of everything you've posted before. Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that's worth keeping.

Evan Spiegel

#29. Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Lana Del Rey

#30. It's not like me to brood on the past. I'm not comfortable with uncomfortable truths. I prefer to round off the edges and corners until I have something worth keeping.

Mark Lawrence

#31. Some promises aren't worth keeping.

Holly Black

#32. He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

Izaak Walton

#33. She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.

William Dean Howells

#34. Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

Laura Whitcomb

#35. Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Ambrose Bierce

#36. If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

Sarah Dessen

#37. Sometimes in life, you do things you don't want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It's all about deciding what's worth losing and what's worth keeping.

Lindy Zart

#38. Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Jean Cocteau

#39. What was worth saving? Not as much as you'd anticipated, once you got into the spirit of paperlessness. Pile up those mine carts with fool's gold. The thing that's worth keeping is the thing you do next.

Nick Paumgarten

#40. There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

David Hewson

#41. Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

Lionel Shriver

#42. I clung to the dream like a lifeline, the only thing worth keeping going for. That was why I had agreed to come here. I'd always said I would sell my soul for a pony of my own.

Kate Lattey

#43. I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.

Susan Sontag

#44. Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

Mackenzie Crook

#45. He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Michael Morpurgo

#46. I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Ashwin Sanghi

#47. Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

Simone Weil

#48. The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

Eric Hoffer

#49. My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth.

Karen Salmansohn

#50. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

Abraham Lincoln

#51. A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

James Van Allen

#52. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Eric Hoffer

#53. Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.

Brodi Ashton

#54. Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Henry Ford

#55. life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

Jane Marks

#56. 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

#57. Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#58. Because what he showed me is that he sees the same things in her I do. He knows she's worth waiting for. And when it's time, he intends to be the one. That's why he's keeping her close. To those of us who live forever, a few years isn't long to wait.

Karen Marie Moning

#59. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah