Worthy Quotes - page 2

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. (Virchand Gandhi)
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of thecommunity are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. View quote
George Washington
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip. View quote
Glenn Beck
In Lifes small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when shell say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me. View quote
James Russell Lowell
And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. View quote
William Wordsworth
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. (Brené Brown)
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. View quote
Eliza Farnham
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. View quote
James Otis
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. View quote
Walter Scott
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. View quote
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. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. View quote
James Surowiecki
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. View quote
Jane Smiley