Reading is very good. And you can quote me! — Stan Lee
Only one book is worth reading: the heart. — Ajahn Chah
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. — A.C. Grayling
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. — Mary Harris Jones
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. — Mortimer J. Adler
Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written. — Vijay Kedia
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Cornelia Funke
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. — Mark Haddon
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
In a good book the best is between the lines. — Swedish Proverbs
It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. — Erle Stanley Gardner
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. — Mary Schmich
Reading a book isn’t a race — the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed. — Naval Ravikant
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. — Enrique Jardiel Poncela
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Sayings
Worth Reading Image Quotes
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.
Books Worth Reading Quotes
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading. — Rikki Ducornet
I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. — Sam Bankman-Fried
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. — John Morley
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. — C. S. Lewis
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. — Katherine Paterson
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. — Isaac Asimov
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
A book worth reading is worth buying. — John Ruskin
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times. — Robert Anton Wilson
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search. — Louis Agassiz
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis
Value Of Reading Quotes
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. — Charles Caleb Colton
I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there. — Michael Burry
I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. It's perfectly okay to take a book, read it, have a good time, giggle and laugh - and turn off the TV. I love that. — Barbara Park
Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals. — Osip Mandelstam
Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies. — Rochelle B Lazarus
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon. — Leo Buscaglia
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. — Winona Ryder
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones. — Stanisław I Leszczyński
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company. — Thomas Jefferson
Nice Quotes
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten. — Tyga
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
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.
There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal. — Nouman Ali Khan
When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. — Wilson Mizner
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. — Johnny Cash
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. — Eminem
Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect. — Colin Powell
Worth Your Time Quotes
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein
Stop being a supporting player in the movie that is your life. Become the movie star. This is a hero's journey you have embarked upon. It's high time you start acting like it. — Rich Roll
If they pay you what you’re worth, then you can get your time back, and if you get your time back, then you can be hyperefficient. — Naval Ravikant
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant? — Tom Hardy
When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again. — Bobby Allison
Talk to people. Go another way. Don't kill yourself. It ain't worth it and I'm a great example. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out? — Ken Griffey, Jr.
If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.
Have her try to prove to you why she is worth your time. — Corey Wayne
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. — Serge Daney
This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding. — Millard Fuller
Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Worthwhile Quotes
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor. — Joseph Pilates
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means. — J. R. D. Tata
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. — Vince Lombardi
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work. — J. R. D. Tata
If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. — Michel Foucault
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. — Mark Twain
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet. — Philo Farnsworth
Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. — Saint Francis de Sales
Worth Living Quotes
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. — Robert Baden-Powell
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough
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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. — Robert Downey, Jr.
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. — Thomas Jefferson
I look for the good in people. Sometimes I get hurt for it, but it's rare and it's worth it. You may hear me say optimistic things that sound naive. I'm not naive. I've read too much history to be naive. I just think love wins out over the darker parts of human nature in the end. — Lex Fridman
When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert! — Rumi
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. — Rumi
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — G. M. Trevelyan
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. — Rumi
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. — Aleister Crowley
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. — Rumi
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. — Ross Perot
I read somewhere that we are all more than we know. And I really believe that. Everybody is worth something, and think of all the amazing things that you could be to each other, to people you don't even know, of all the things that you could accomplish. — Pat Benatar
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading. — Bernard Malamud
Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come. — Anne Graham Lotz
Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. — Sarah Kay
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi
The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk. — Anna Kendrick
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked. — Patrick Kavanagh
If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading. — David Starkey
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read. — David Starkey
In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it. — Taylor Swift
Everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it. — John Ruskin
I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure. — Amanda McKittrick Ros
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading. — Craig Johnson
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. — Antonin Artaud
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. — John Gould
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. — Charles Spurgeon
People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. — Zelda Fitzgerald
If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for. — Nuala O'Faolain
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons. — Kurt Vonnegut
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