Worthy Quotes - Page 17

• Whether D.C. residents will be full-fledged citizens seems to be a case worthy of the Supreme Court.

  Walter Smith

  Citizens, Residents, Court

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• If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.

  Jack Hyles

  Tasks, Attention, Ifs

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• Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
  Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Party, Hands

  A. C. Grayling (2011). “The Good Book: A Secular Bible”, p.42, A&C Black

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• To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Christian, Lying, Believe

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• Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

  John Brown

  Powerful, Intelligent, Men

  John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial, November 2, 1859.

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• Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Mother, Justice, Diversity

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• Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.39, Whitaker House

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• Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Order, Appreciate

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• Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

  John McCain

  Country, Patriotic, Sacrifice

  Liberty University Commencement Address, delivered 13 May 2006

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• I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

  Hassan II of Morocco

  Humility, Rewards, Hassan

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• I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.

  Emma Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview With Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

  Arnold Haultain

  Struggle, Fighting, Golf

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Passion

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons, perhaps, less worthy of you than your old master. Yet how dear to me are they all! Have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them all in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all!

  Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

  Book, Love You, Reading

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• If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Perseverance, Heart

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Oh brother we are not worthy!

  Rick Jeanneret

  Brother, Hockey, Not Worthy

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• And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

  David Platt

  Punishment, Sin, Guilty

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.31, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Long, Four

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• Worthy things happen to the worthy.

  Plautus

  Perseverance, Happens, Things Happen

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• Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, Levels, Bears

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1935). “Conversations with Goethe”

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• I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Limits, Blind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.177

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• Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

  Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

  Pain, Alcohol, Mind

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• Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Exercise, Autumn

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Beer, Names, Gentleman

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• We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Fall, Thinking, Hands

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