Worthy Quotes - Page 37

• When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

  Epictetus

  Moving, Want, Philosopher

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love
  nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Men, And Love

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Country, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295

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• In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Cities, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Giving

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• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both
  better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Use, May

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.90, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• If you're in a relationship with someone who does not honor or respect you, I want you to know you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help.

  Brooke Axtell

  Love, Honor, Doe

  "Obama, Katy Perry team up against domestic abuse at Grammys" by Brooke Axtell, www.reuters.com. February 9, 2015.

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• Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, Show Me, Shows

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• To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.

  Angela Merkel

  Xenophobia, Fighting, Racism

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• The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

  Bhartrhari

  Adversity, Men, Evil

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• Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

  Saadi

  Confidence, Secret, May

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• The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to be placed and to shine in the heavenly palace.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Fire, Shining, Soul

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• But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.

  RuPaul

  Second Chance, People, Ifs

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• When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

  RuPaul

  Faces, Face To Face

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• I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Country, Mistake

  "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

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• I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

  Kofi Annan

  Environmental, Generations, World

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• The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Wise, War

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• The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.

  Wesley Pruden

  Jobs, War, Nice

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• All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

  Marco Rubio

  Development, Protection, Human Life

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I hope to evoke emotion in others, help them escape for even just a little while into different worlds, different times and different thoughts. Whenever I'm able to lend my name to worthy causes and try and change this world for the better I feel like my work is a success.

  James Preston Rogers

  Names, Trying, Able

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• Success is the ability to meet worthy goals, but it's also the ability to love and have compassion and the ability to get in touch with your creative center, to transform yourself toward more peaceful and just pursuits. I hope we redefine success. Otherwise, we'll see more of what we're already seeing - more aggression, more burnout, more Wall Street scandals, more war, more terrorism, more eco-destruction.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wall, War, Compassion

  "How A Video Game Could Make You A Better Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 22, 2011.

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• We shouldn't want things and we should be satisfied with no thing. Furthermore, we don't deserve whatever we would like to have in our lives because we think we have been bad, we feel insufficient, or somebody else has convinced us that we're not worthy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Want, Should

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Peace, Self, Imagination

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.189, Stanford University Press

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• Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Please learn that as you wrestle with a challenge and feel sadness because of it, you can simultaneously have peace and rejoicing.

  Richard G. Scott

  Peace, Sadness, Adversity

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