Worthy Quotes

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

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

Good, Great, Writing

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
Vidal Sassoon

Enough, General, Deserves

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
Mike Ditka

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace Thackeray

Mind, Keep, Forgotten

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom

Person, Others, Able

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
Anthony Minghella

Feeling, Sometimes, Speak

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.
Thomas S. Monson

Life, Friend, Decision

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

Life, Mind, Goal

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.
Geronimo

Trust, Others, Honor

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.
Michael Scheuer

Care, Enemy, Him

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
Sargent Shriver

Respect, Opinion, Another

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes

Nothing, Why, Adventure

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.
Shia LaBeouf

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor

Judge, Kindness, Job

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin

Nature, Truth, Beautiful

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
Isabelle Adjani

Love, Keep, Leave

Many politicians are in the habit of laying 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.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Freedom, Fool, Down

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
Julie Andrews

Life, Good, Great

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter

Best, Freedom, Here

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry

Hope, Care, After

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
Havelock Ellis

Nothing, Giving, Give

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
Anna Julia Cooper

Strength, Him, Labor

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
Paul Muldoon

Down, Put, Reason

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Publilius Syrus

Favor, Benefit, Confer

I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.
Susan Orlean

Work, Loved, Figure

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand

Men, Science, Made

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Death, Goal

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi

Women, Men, Freedom

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