Top 225 Worthy Quotes

If you’ve been betrayed by a spouse or a partner, it’s much easier to focus on causing that person pain than it is to turn forward and actually create a life that’s worthy of you in the future.
Martha Nussbaum
The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
Anthony Minghella
I’ve loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I’ve loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.
Susan Orlean
There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.
Paul G. Tremblay
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it’s not really worthy of it.
James Spader
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
Joseph Lancaster
MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat – worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
Bob Barr
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
Matthew Henry
Destro and Silvestre are two players worthy of wearing the Inter colours.
Javier Zanetti
You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I

You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here… and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.
Jose Antonio Vargas
The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along – not the Congress nor the courts.
Earl Warren
Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they’re not worthy or beautiful.
Shantel VanSanten
We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worthy of the support.
Susan Burton
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.
Rob Mariano
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of ‘writer’ is a border writer. We all are border people.
Luis Alberto Urrea
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
It’s sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don’t think you can predict it anymore – who’s going to like what you’ve done, if it’s worthy or not. And hopefully, that’s not why you make a film, because if you’re distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don’t do it justice.
Emily Blunt
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Comte de Lautreamont
If aliens are really hanging out in our ‘hood, it’s hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they’re here?
Seth Shostak
If string theory is a mistake, it’s not a trivial mistake. It’s a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.
Lee Smolin
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
George Chapman
Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.
Michael Mandelbaum
When I give my time to a worthy cause, it’s time well spent. Lending a voice to help raise money – or perhaps just awareness – is the least I can do to give back. When I spend time with people who are fighting for children, it puts everything into perspective.
Amy Robach
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson
I divide criticism into two categories – one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
A. R. Rahman
I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
Wale
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I hope I’m worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself – that I wouldn’t become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I’m not afraid of it. It’d be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
Brendan Gleeson
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Jasmine Guy
Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.
Rege-Jean Page
We are a very tight-knit family at WWE. We are very protective of our family. When an outsider comes in, you want to make sure the outsider is worthy to step into the family.
Nia Jax
Doug Stanhope is great – I saw his ‘Burning the Bridge to Nowhere’ show and it was inspiring. He’s like an anti-shaman, taking the sting out of a bunch of things we’ve chosen to give a symbolic power to. I’ve made it sound noble and worthy there, it’s not, it’s really funny.
Frankie Boyle
We’ve heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes – and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.
Charles Best
Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of poking fun at it and letting the air out of people and satirizing things that are worthy of satire.
Paul F. Tompkins
There’s some dudes that did Gangsta Grillz tapes who probably weren’t worthy of it – their label just put up the bread, or they did a favor.
Freddie Gibbs
Nothing worthy is easy, whether you are a male or a female.
Divya Khosla Kumar
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.
Helen Keller
Being a monarchist – saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another – is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
Julie Burchill
The best way to honor our troops, the less than 1% of our country’s population who voluntarily put their lives on the line in service to our country, is by making sure that when they are sent into combat, it is the last option, not the first, and that the mission is worthy of their great sacrifice.
Tulsi Gabbard
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all

Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold
Most of my life is taken up with family. It takes me awhile to get a record together that I feel is worthy of putting out.
Michael McDonald
There arose a belief in style – and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Douglas Sirk
My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Most men that run for office wake up in the morning and say, I am worthy to be the president of the United States of America. I want women to channel their inner man and say, Oh yeah, I am worthy.
Nina Turner
The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money’s worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
Sam Brownback
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt
It’s a treasure to be part of a Game 7 against a worthy opponent.
Erik Spoelstra
If I was an alien looking down at Earth and studying the way we’ve treated the planet, would I really think humans are worthy of all these resources? Probably not.
Alex Roe
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Abraham Lincoln
Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they will likely die in prison without a chance to prove to society they are worthy of a second chance.
Alan K. Simpson
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
Henri Poincare
I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn’t bring my chairs with me.
Elizabeth McCracken