Quotes of Unworthy - somelinesforyou

“ If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. ”

- Russell Wayne Baker

“ Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership. ”

- Charles C. Morrison

“ The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ”

- John Dewey

“ If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself. ”

- August Heckscher

“ Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations. ”

- Richard Gilman

“ If you start to victimise yourself, as an unworthy component in a beautifully constructed machine, that component is going to fail the machinery. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. ”

- Plutarch

“ Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. ”

- Russell Baker

“ An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it… ”

- Mark Twain

“ He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Fear betrays unworthy souls. ”

- Virgil

“ Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. ”

- Unknown

“ Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.". ”

- Johnson

“ I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation… ”

- William James

“ War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny … .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written… ”

- J. M. Synge
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