Quotes:
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself
View quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson
Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.
View quotes by Sir John Denham
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
View quotes by Dwight Eisenhower
Taking me from behind is something that is not worthy behaviour of a man [on a dodgy challenge on the pitch!]
View quotes by Nicolas Burdisso
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
View quotes by Quintus Ennius
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
View quotes by Walter Lippmann
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men
View quotes by Walter J Lippmann
I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
View quotes by Brendan Fraser
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
View quotes by Martin Gardner
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
View quotes by Helen Keller
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light
View quotes by George Lillo
Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.
View quotes by Herman Melville
These worthy schoolteachers were not overburdened with diplomas, but as far as devotion and morality were concerned, they were second to none; they wore plum-colored silk blouses that caressed my cheeks when they pressed me to their bosoms.
View quotes by Simone De Beauvoir
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
View quotes by Asoka
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
View quotes by Camille Paglia
I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; but, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal what law does vouch mine own.
View quotes by William Shakespeare
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
View quotes by Imannuel Kant
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.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
This is a great honour for Germany.
I think he will be a worthy successor to Pope John Paul II. I congratulate him on behalf of the government and all Germans. [on the election of Pope Benedict XVI]
View quotes by Gerhard Schroeder
When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.
View quotes by Igor Stravinsky
View Results: page 1 2
Proverbs:
A Gossip Betrays A Confidence, But A Trustworthy Man Keeps A Secret
Perform another search