Worthy Quotes - Page 8

• We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Respect, Destiny

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• Date someone who appreciates how worthy you are. I don't care if that person isn't me. A man who appreciates how precious you are. A man who's concerned about whether or not you're feeling cold. A man who can recognize what it is that you need.

  On Joo-wan

  Love, Drama, Men

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• It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

  Alfred Nobel

  Respect, Order, Ethics

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• This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.

  Archibald Geikie

  Book, Science, Thinking

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.4

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• When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.

  James Hutton

  Science, Views, Connections

  James Hutton (1795). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

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• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Patriotic, Heart

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• Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wise, Spiritual, Fall

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• To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Perfection

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Think about everything that you hear, feel everything that you see, love everything that is worthy of love.

  Kardinal Offishall

  Powerful, Thinking, Power Of Love

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• It helps to even look in the mirror - and it sounds so cheesy - but if you just look in the mirror and say, 'You are beautiful,' and 'You are worthy,' those things really help you.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Mirrors

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• I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.

  Sidney Altman

  Growing Up, Boys, Role Models

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• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

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• He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Winning, Race

  Song: I and I, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Education, Country

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• The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this country will endure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ideas, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.318

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• In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Education, Teacher, Determination

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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• Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

  Walter Scott

  Respect, Warrior, Joy

  'The Lady of the Lake' (1810) canto 5, st. 10

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• The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

  Immanuel Kant

  Wisdom, Respect, Dignity

  Immanuel Kant, Lewis White Beck (1976). “Critique of practical reason, and other writings in moral philosophy”, Taylor & Francis

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• What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Dream, Inspiration

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• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Grief, Florida

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• Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Accomplishment, Enough

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• False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Names, People

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• If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Class, Males

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1150, Princeton University Press

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• When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

  Harrison Ford

  Sorry, Thinking, Looks

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• Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cages, Way, Sometimes

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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