| "Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself." »George Washington Allston |
| "A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." »Earl Nightingale |
| "Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect." »Real Live Preacher |
| "There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." »Charles Baudelaire |
| "In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination." »Irving Layton |
| "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "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 |
| "It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour." »Asoka |
| "Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy." »Jean Baptiste Montegut |
| "I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given." »Real Live Preacher |
| "The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds." »John Lancaster Spalding |
| "You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children." »Pablo Casals |
| "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." »George Washington |
| "The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." »Thomas B. Macaulay |
| "Wise and prudent men -- intelligent conservatives -- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." »Lord Macaulay |
| "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony." »William Ellery Channing |
| "Total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your mistakes, defeats and failures, despite what others may think, say or feel about you or your behavior. If you truly accept and love yourself, you won't have a driving need for attention and approval. Self-esteem is a genuine love of self. Stop all adverse value judging of yourself. Stop accepting the adverse value judgments of others. Purge yourself of all condemnation, shame, blame, guilt & remorse." »Unknown |
| "It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich." »Eva Pern |
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