Worthy Quotes

Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

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.

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

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

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

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

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

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

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

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.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

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.

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.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

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.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.