Quotes of Meritorious - somelinesforyou

“ Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- George Champman

“ It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. ”

- Maxwell Maltz

“ He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Self-worth comes from one thing — thinking that you are worthy. ”

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Matthew

“ It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker. ”

- Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

“ Worthy books Are not companions — they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. ”

- Philip James Bailey

“ The real presence of Christ's most precious Body and Blood is not to be sought for in the Sacrament, but in the worthy receiver of the Sacrament. ”

- Richard Hooker

“ The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ You must work; we must all work to make the world worthy of its children. ”

- Pablo Casals

“ The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting. ”

- Ovid

“ For the labourer is worthy of his hire. ”

- Bible

“ Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy… ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bore it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord. ”

- Bible

“ The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy — yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ”

- Nelson Algren

“ The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them… ”

- Eric Hoffer
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