Worthy Quotes - Page 12

• For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Historical, Serious

  'Poetics' ch. 9, 1451b

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• Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

  Michael Scheuer

  Men, Worry, Enemy

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• No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.

  Felix Riesenberg

  Men, Sea, Important

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• I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out.

  Greg LeMond

  Phones, Should Have, People

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• The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Evil, Battle, Weakness

  Alexander McCall Smith (2005). “Friends, Lovers, Chocolate”, Pantheon

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• Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Doe, Life Is, Music Is My Life

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• God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Destiny, Joy, Creatures

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• What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

  Michel Serres

  Philosophy, Names, Links

  Michel Serres, Bruno Latour (1995). “Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time”, p.34, University of Michigan Press

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• I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

  Alva Myrdal

  Giving Up, Today, Messages

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• Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teaching, Giving, Joy

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• If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love

  Henry B. Eyring

  Girl, Desire, Young

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• As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Order, Challenges

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• Every man who truly loves a woman, and every woman who truly loves a man, hopes and dreams that their companionship will last forever. But marriage is a covenant sealed by authority. If that authority is of the state alone, it will endure only while the state has jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction ends with death. But add to the authority of the state the power of the endowment given by Him who overcame death, and that companionship will endure beyond life if the parties to the marriage live worthy of the promise.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Party, Men

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• Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

  Alan Keyes

  Commitment, Reality, Rights

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• I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Deserve

  Florence Nightingale (2016). “Florence Nightingale to her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

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• People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, People, Political

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• My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again! His beauty... his sweetness and gentleness - really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a husband! to be called names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before - was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life! May God help me to do my duty as I ought and be worthy of such blessings.

  Queen Victoria

  Husband, Blessing, Names

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• 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

  Joseph Furphy

  Party, Expression, Play

  Joseph Furphy (2016). “Such is Life”, p.342, Joseph Furphy

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• Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Meaningful, Jobs

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The good news - and it is largely good news - is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark

  Tom Peters

  Skills, News, Chance

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• Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done lately - this week - to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?

  Tom Peters

  Quality, Done, Week

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• Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

  Phil Donahue

  Target, Television, Promoters

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Thinking, Games

  "Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids". www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2005.

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• A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Church, Authenticity

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