Top 100 Worthy Of Quotes
#1. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They
John Connolly
#2. Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
#3. Good men want only the power to make things right. Great men seek to make things right and gather the power to do so. Great leaders find those who are worthy of wielding power and set them to the task of making things right.
Kel Kade
#4. So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
Plutarch
#5. The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.
Cynthia Dill
#6. I'm not worthy of you or your Omega awesomeness.
James Ponti
#7. There was no success that could make me more worthy of the gift. And no failure that could take it away.
Virginia Carmichael
#8. There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
Jay McInerney
#9. Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.
Gerald Durrell
#10. VIRTUES ARE THE PRECIOUS VESSELS WORTHY OF THE WORLD'S REVERENCE, AND THE BEST WORD FOR VIRTUES IS LOVE.
Frances Angelina
#11. The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
James Otis
#12. If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and sublime, anything answering that immoderate desire for the infinite and the vague that we call the soul, it is art.
Gustave Flaubert
#13. That's a shame. A woman as beautiful and sexy as you deserves to have her body worshipped by any man she deems worthy of her bed
Stacie Simpson
#14. I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
Vin Diesel
#15. Sometimes I don't feel worthy but then I look at my reflection and see my daughter, mother and grandmother who are worthy of all things. That in itself says a lot about me.
Alexandra Elle
#16. A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.
Oscar Romero
#17. Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.
Bohdi Sanders
#18. I trust that I raised a strong enough woman to know who's worthy of her and who isn't. If this guy is good enough for you, and he's the one who has you floating around on cloud nine and giving you back your spark, you can be damn sure he's good enough for me.
Cherrie Lynn
#19. Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?
Jacqueline Carey
#20. You are worthy of good things, and you are a deserving and beautiful person.
Bryant McGill
#21. You will find that even injustice is scarcely worthy of what you believe yourself to be.
William Faulkner
#22. Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.
Edward Hirsch
#23. The principal prayer and aim of Christians should be that we "walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God" (Col 1:10).
Arthur W. Pink
#24. Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
Luis Barragan
#25. They all saw her as a little sister, someone cute and sweet to spend time with when they were feeling homesick or their girlfriends were busy. They didn't see her as a woman, as someone worthy of spending time with, someone worth the risk of losing their heart.
R.L. Mathewson
#26. By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.
J.K. Rowling
#27. I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
John Guare
#29. Today I am discovering who I am. Today I am becoming my person, worthy of developing all of me. Today I am beginning to know that I am okay the way I am.
Ruth Fishel
#30. Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
Samuel Butler
#31. All mothers just want their angels to find men worthy of them. Even more than that, someone that will look at them like they're magic.
Karina Halle
#32. We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
#33. The Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom ranked for Jefferson as one of the three achievements worthy of gracing his tombstone (the Declaration of Independence and the University of Virginia were the other two).
Matthew Stewart
#34. When we live with a lack of anxiety about the future, even in those tightrope kind of times, we communicate the truth that our God is indeed worthy of our trust.
Matt Chandler
#35. I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.
Ron Moody
#36. He hadn't treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and someday some boy would have it for me. I hadn't found it yet, but I would find it soon.
Aspen Matis
#37. He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Pope Urban II
#38. I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.
Patti Smith
#39. Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation by those anointed of God to preach the Gospel. The revival under Josiah took place when 'Hilkiah found the Book of the Law of the Lord'.
Wilbur Moorehead Smith
#40. No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
Nhat Hanh
#41. The joy we feel to be together seems worthy of a fairy tale, from the moment our eyes met we felt the crush of love. This is not a passing infatuation, ours is love of truth.
Auliq Ice
#42. Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed ... normal.
Nicholas Sparks
#43. One of the voices that we struggle with inside is the voice of religion. Religion teaches us some very strict things about God and our relationship with God. Some religions teach us that we aren't worthy of having a personal relationship with God.
Echo Bodine
#44. The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
Seth Godin
#45. The Captain of the Guard would be an interesting opponent. Maybe even worthy of some effort on her part.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he accepted them, that Dexter is good and that he is worthy of love. And I think that's what enables him to focus his energies in this unique way.
Michael C. Hall
#47. When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.
Igor Stravinsky
#48. Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?
Dejan Stojanovic
#49. Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?"
"I'm
John Bunyan
#50. A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
Sigmund Freud
#51. Love is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.
Peter Rollins
#52. Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.
Fred Phelps
#53. She wanted someone to reach down and see her and think she was worthy of saving. Not because she was more special than anyone else. But just because she needed to know she was loved.
Christy Barritt
#54. This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.
Ernest Hemingway,
#55. I fear that someday you will abandon the joys we share and find another not worthy of your charms.
Lois Greiman
#56. Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.
John Of Kronstadt
#57. You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of
Death's ... love
Abbi Glines
#58. Prove that you are my daughter, prove that you are mine. Prove to me that you are the blood of the dragon. Prove you are worthy of that mark on your skin.
Melissa De La Cruz
#59. A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. There was a time I believed I was worthy of true love. But now, living in a hell littered with reminders of broken promises, I know what we have is anything but love.
Gia Riley
#61. Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#62. All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.
Dalai Lama
#63. The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#64. What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#65. The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#66. Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.
Marion Nestle
#67. Still, happiness will depend on conditions favoring it. Lose those conditions and you lose your happiness. So, if your ability to affect happiness is so limited, the question becomes this - is happiness, then, really worthy of being the ultimate goal of life?" I'd
Bikram Dhillon
#68. If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
Agesilaus II
#69. It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.
Ann Coulter
#70. Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#71. A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?
Doris Lessing
#72. I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs
#73. All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.
Marco Rubio
#74. If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging. When
Brene Brown
#75. It's as simple and complicated as this: If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
Brene Brown
#77. Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
Saadi
#78. I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.
Milan Kundera
#79. The last player I truly idolize ... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him.
(on Maradona)
Hristo Stoichkov
#80. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
Edward Abbey
#81. The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
Igor Stravinsky
#82. No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, 'I am baffled!' and submits to be floated passively back to land.
Charlotte Bronte
#83. You may never get back this life, so do something in this lifetime worthy of celebration.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.
Christina Engela
#85. It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor
#86. When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
Bertrand Russell
#87. Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples.
Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
Cesar Chavez
#88. God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.
Jerry Bridges
#89. Contentment and gratitude are signs that you are worthy of further receivership.
Bryant McGill
#90. Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature - the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but will always be at the service of God.
Oswald Chambers
#91. Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelty evolves into evil.
Some
humans aren't human at all,
despite how they appear.
Humanity is what lives inside
people,
harbored beneath skin, flesh,
and bone.
Ellen Hopkins
#92. There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's own novel.
Franz Kafka
#93. When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
James Whitcomb Riley
#94. Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
Wynonna Judd
#95. A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.
Robert A. Heinlein
#96. Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11
Richard J. Foster
#98. People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.
H.L. Mencken
#100. My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and at the same time filled to bursting with
Michael Chabon
