Character is much easier kept than recovered. — Thomas Paine
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. — Joni Mitchell
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
A bird in the hand is worth more than one hundred in flight. — Mexican Proverbs
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. — Pliny The Elder
Someone who can hold on to his money is worth more than the one who earns it. — Yiddish Proverbs
Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning. — Charles R. Swindoll
It would be a waste just to keep it all to myself. — Yusaku Maezawa
The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all. — Nichiren
The counsel you would have another keep, first keep yourself. — Proverbs
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy. — Mr. Krabs
Get what you can and keep what you have; that’s the way to get rich. — Scottish Proverbs
A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine. — Grace Kelly
But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. — Margaret Mary Alacoque
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Stephen Covey
Better one bird in your hand than ten in the woods. — Swedish Proverbs
Better keep the devil at the door than have to turn him out of the house. — Scottish Proverbs
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. — Francesco Guicciardini
Worth Keeping Image Quotes
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Sayings
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Keep What Is Worth Keeping Quotes
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore
A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own. — Lisa Rogers
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. — George Eliot
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act... — Jim Morrison
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
All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it. — David O. Mckay
Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.
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
It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value. — Vartan Gregorian
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. — Vincent Van Gogh
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
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. — Karl Marx
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down. — Robert Greene
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. — George Eliot
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. — William Hazlitt
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
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
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. — Ovid
The hardest part in fulfilling your vision is the initial momentum to get started… so keep pushing forward!!! It will be worth it in the end. — Russell Brunson
Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go. — Frank Ocean
He wished to keep Lanzetti, who only wants to please La Becchera, but he is wrong, because La Isola and associate are not worth the money. — Antonio Vivaldi
When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also? — Carole Lombard
Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . . — Edwidge Danticat
Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us. — Virginia Hamilton
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. — Mark Twain
Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something. — Diane Keaton
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? — Eleanor Roosevelt
The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise. — Alex Sanchez
Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it. — Martin Lawrence
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. — Red Auerbach
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. — Victor Cherbuliez
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date. — Charlton Heston
Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living. — Grenville Kleiser
Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it! — Buddha
A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or who to go around for he is likely to get only those who are of his ilk and the real worth on the ground. — Anuj
Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait. — Kirsten Miller
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last. — Benjamin Franklin
The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it? — Charles Teo
Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive. — Bob Beaudine
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life. — Eric Hoffer
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything. — Virginia Woolf
I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it. — Avril Lavigne
I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth. — Mark Nepo
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does. — Stanley Elkin
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on. — E. B. White
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. — David Hume
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