Worthy Quotes

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln

Worry, Strive, Recognized

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

Great, Men, True

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

Happiness, True, Through

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, True, Through

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

Loves, Flattered, Flatterer

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
Confucius

Yourself, May, Office

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

Idea, Dangerous

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya

Wise, Give, Others

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato

Great, Men, Nothing

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.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Great, Hope, Courage

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness, Happy, May

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.
Marlene Dietrich

Heart, Country, America

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle

Truth, Past, Nothing

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
Danica McKellar

Respect, Smart, Yourself

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley

Yourself, Striving, Constant

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Office, Hold, Position

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

Work, God, Evil

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Past, Free, Prove

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
Denis Waitley

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce

Society, Control, Earth

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.
Harvey Fierstein

Somebody, Passes, Afterlife

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Time, Islam, Past

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Jasmine Guy

Love, Time, Respect

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Saint Patrick

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
Matthew Henry

Good, True, News

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire

Respect, Soldier, Three

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Camille Paglia

Men, Sex, Woman

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

Great, Power, Humanity

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale

Success, Goal, Ideal

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