Quotes with worthy

  • There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
  • Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
  • In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
  • Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
  • Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
  • Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
  • To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
  • I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
  • You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
  • To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Jeanette Winterson It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Confucius I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Horace You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jean Rostand A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Albert Pike 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; and the
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • John Milton Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Barnett Newman Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Salman Rushdie Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Eliza Farnham Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Kingsley Amis Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909 - 1993)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • William Shakespeare He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Queen Victoria His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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