Quotes with worthy

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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn 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.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Augusten Burroughs 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
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert 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.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred Nobel It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Boomer Esiason It's an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! - what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
    Works of Abraham Lincoln (2010 edition)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Daniel Webster Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Immanuel Kant Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Mark Twain Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Francis Bacon No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Mason Brown No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Benjamin Harrison No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Plato Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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