This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
The longer I live the more I am convinced that the one thing worth living for and dying for is the privilege of making someone more happy and more useful. No person who ever does anything to lift their fellows ever makes a sacrifice.
A teacher who tends to lower the self-esteem and confidence of his students should either change this tendency or change professions. One of the most important lessons an educator can convey to students is that they have inherent worth and should strive to utilize their potential.
Change | Confidence | Esteem | Important | Self | Self-esteem | Worth | Teacher |
B. C. Forbes, fully Bertie Charles "B.C." Forbes
One worthwhile task carried to a successful completion is worth a hundred half-finished tasks.
Worth |
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual
We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshipped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshipped. So beware of money and money’s worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.
Better | Competence | Extravagance | Mind | Money | Passion | Wealth | Worth | Learn | Old |
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Immortality | Worth |
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; if you think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even though the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and [when you] start taking the first ten, and ... twenty after that, it is amazing how quickly you get through through the four thousand [nine hundred] and ninety. The last ten steps you never seem to work out. But you keep on coming nearer to giving the world something.
F. H. Bradley, fully Frances Herbert "F.H." Bradley
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Self-knowledge | Worth |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Effort | Happy | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Suffering | Will | Worth |
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Self-knowledge | Worth |
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.