Worthy Quotes

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant)
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. View quote
Jean Rostand
It is easier to seem worthy of positions one does not have than of those one does. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy... View quote
Georges Rouault
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust. View quote
Geronimo
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet - it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. View quote
Joss Whedon
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
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. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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. (Helen Keller)
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. View quote
Bob Marley
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it. View quote
Joseph Joubert
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. View quote
Havelock Ellis
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. View quote
Matthew Henry
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. View quote
William Shakespeare
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. View quote
Mark Twain
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate That all compete for so beautiful a death. View quote
Pierre Corneille
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. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration. (Paulo Coelho)
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Build me straight, O worthy Master Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. View quote
Viktor Frankl
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah