Worthy Quotes - Page 33

• It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Longing, Great American, Novel

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• And all those who desire to celebrate, glorifying with faith and seeking Your salvation and mercy through me, grant to them Your good things in this world, and to go forth pleasing You, and make them worthy of Your heavenly Kingdom, for You are the only Good One and Lover-of-man, and the Giver of Good things, unto the ages. Amen.

  Marina of Aguas Santas

  Humility, Men, Age

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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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• We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Land, Thank You God

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• I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Soul, Cases

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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 thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.

  John Vianney

  People, Grace, Suffering

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• If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

  Kiersten Warren

  Softball, Skills, Opponents

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• Anything worthy of your passion, should be worthy of your preparation.

  Sue Enquist

  Passion, Preparation, Should

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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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• That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

  Mary McDonnell

  Motivational, Thinking, Leader

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• Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.13, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South.

  Arthur Fremantle

  Determination, War, Hopeful

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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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• When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.

  Jean Giono

  Spring, Taken, Greatness

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• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Real, Destiny

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• The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

  Victor Hugo

  Poverty, Chance, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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• Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

  Vanna Bonta

  Heart, Support, Leader

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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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• Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

  Wes Fesler

  Adversity, Goal, Endurance

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• You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.

  Junot Diaz

  Relationship, Giving Up, Writing

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• The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

  James C. Collins

  Entrepreneur, Challenges, Endure

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• The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Courage, Flower, Inspiration

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