Worthy Quotes

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille

Death, Beautiful, Country

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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Life, Great, Everyday

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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life, Society, Legal

I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.
Kesha

Making, Plan, Records

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
Samuel Richardson

Best, Husband, Bad

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Rick Warren

Nothing, Country, Place

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt

Chance, Anyone, Turn

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles de Gaulle

Great, Country, Friends

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.
James Otis

Life, Health, Sacrifice

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
George McGovern

Knowledge, Made, Wish

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

Two, Living, Write

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
Giacomo Casanova

A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.
Sun Myung Moon

Courage, Sun, Moon

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II

Life, Trust, Heart

I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
Vin Diesel

Work, May, Different

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
Trevor Phillips

Human, Rights, Name

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Life, God, Death

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.
Tori Spelling

Time, Trying, Find

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.
Julie Burchill

Men, Woman, Once

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
Julie Burchill

Respect, Saying, Small

I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.
Ricky Williams

Time, Home, Why

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
Earl Warren

Long, Law, Fashion

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
John Powell

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova

Fool, Fact, Seems

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.
George Saunders

Goal, Strange, Try

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Nice, Important

A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.
Angie Stone

Work, Care, Makes

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.
Picabo Street

Person, Mirror, Nobody

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
Walter Kaufmann

God, Respect, Job

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