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“I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.”

Ends Worthy Scare Being Loved Lovable Not Worthy

Author:Demi Moore

“This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.”

Humans Life Is Abuse Worthy This Life Rejects Not Worthy Life Is A Gift

Author:Michael Moore

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”

Knows Three Poet Respect Dignity Soldier Worthy Priests Poetic

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.”

Reason Doors Worthy Welcome Upbringing Accusation

Author:Paul Muldoon

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

Source: How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds

“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

Men Inspirational Loses Humorous Anger Definitions Worthy Producers Martial Arts Temper Steel Bad Ass Screenwriters Worthiness Anger Management

Book:The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories

Source: The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories

“I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.”

Ifs Want Country Worthy Harm Ireland

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“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.”

Ifs Figures Worthy Gadgets Developers Not Worthy

Author:Susan Orlean

“The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.”

Men Country Principles Sacrifice Sacred Worthy Ease Gentleman Estates Applause

Author:James Otis

“Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.”

Men Sex Stuff Attention Prove Worthy Proof Dominant

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”

Ifs Want Needs Running Jobs Effort Ocean Rain Tasks Clean Intention Very Good Worthy Accomplish Forests Serenity Good Job Dolphins Best Intentions

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.”

Ifs May Teach Worthy Despise Despised Heathen

Book:The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick

Source: The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick

“Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.”

Men Sacrifice Men And Women Worthy Uniforms Secured

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.”

Men Writing Two Action Economy Greater Written Objects Worthy Contemplation Two Things Good Man Worth Living Great Author

Author:Ross Perot

“Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.”

People Ifs Humans Wells Names Rights Protect Human Rights Worthy Not Worthy

Author:Trevor Phillips

“Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.”

Giving Humans Human Beings Moral Psychology Morality Goodness Ethics Worthy Meaning Of Life Conception Topics Moral Goodness

Author:Steven Pinker

“It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.”

Needs Kind Play Jobs Kindness Judging Determine Worthy Motive Be Kind Jury Ulterior Motive Judge And Jury

Author:Josh Radnor

“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.”

Thinking Men Values Nations Sun Worthy Good Man Countrymen

Author:Samuel Richardson

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

Doe Work Position Easier Office Worthy Promotion

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.”

Book Eye Beautiful Artist Names Accepting Worthy His Eyes Blindness Exterior Open Book Accepting The Truth

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.”

Mind Heart Enough Humanity Power Worthy Monstrous Great Minds Great Hearts

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”

Men Made Science Education Worthy

Author:Jean Rostand

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

Care Earth Nature Responsibility Garden Remains Environmental Ancient Worthy Cherish Renewal

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.”

People Enough Given Deserve Worthy Crafts Hairdressing

Author:Vidal Sassoon

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

Love Worthy Flattery Flattered Flatterer

Author:William Shakespeare

“Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.”

Earth Modern Land Subjects Theory Foundation Property Worthy Surface Ownership Modern Society Ownership And Control

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.”

Men Opinion Valuable Worthy Rational Realization Another Man

Author:Sargent Shriver

“I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Care Voice Self Love Worthy Take Care Versions Being The Best Love Yourself Inner Voice Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.”

People Knows Children Know How Knowing Healthy Deserve Worthy Motivated

Author:Richard Simmons

“I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.”

Mystery Example Objects Horse Metaphor Worthy Generosity Contemplation Unpredictability

Author:Jane Smiley

“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.”

Men Life Law Terrible Worthy Lawyer Scales Objectives Communist Regimes

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.”

People Knows Feels Care Causes Greater Industry Degrees Don't Care Worthy Credit Credibility Cds Unnoticed

Author:Angie Stone

“Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.”

Inspirational Needs Looks Persons Answers Self Esteem Prove Mirrors Worthy Worthiness

Author:Picabo Street

“Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.”

“Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?”

Men Mind Doe Kindness Forgotten Worthy Injury Easily Forgotten

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.”

Knows Persons Philosophy Able Literature Easy Answers Inspiring Education Educational Worthy Educated Consideration Classroom Obstinate Educated Person Consideration For Others

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion the law as he sees fit.”

Ifs Long Law Turns Fashion Tradition Court Congress Worthy Get Away Twists

Author:Earl Warren

“Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.”

Firsts Wells Country Military Worthy Serving Vocation Military Service

Author:Rick Warren

“Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.”

Different Country Kids Age Taught Worthy Ridicule Being Different

Author:Matt Bomer

“I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.”

Ifs Thinking Made Important Culture Study Successful Worthy Popular Culture Idiotic

Author:Joss Whedon

“My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.”

Mean Made Helping Use Care Causes Poor Deals Rich Deserve Worthy Appeals Sickness Misfortunes Brethren

Author:Ellen G. White

“I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.”

People Feels Home Talking Wonder Worthy Staring Jersey Talking About Me

Author:Ricky Williams

“Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.”

Giving May Sometimes Might Asks Goal Growth Grace Achieve Perspective Blessed Strive Prosperity Conviction Worthy Thanksgiving Stamina Petitions

Author:David A. Bednar

“High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.”

Building Taste Survival Worthy Unpredictable Variables

Author:Martin Filler

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

People Life Inspirational Truth Work Truth Is Worthy Optimistic Telling The Truth Honest Truth Truth And Honesty Not Worthy Truth Honesty Truth Be Told Saying The Truth

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Moments Today Salvation Worthy Surrender Diaries Hold Fast

Book:The diaries of Franz Kafka

Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

Life Inspirational Believe Humans Beautiful Spirit Wonder Risk Trust Listening Sacred Curiosity Delight Valuable Worthy Believe In Yourself Spontaneous Human Spirit Deep Inside

Author:e. e. cummings

“That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

People World Dies Common Tree This World Prove Folks Worthy Convinced Consideration Unusual Unnoticed Scarecrow Reasonableness Common Folk

Book:30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…

Source: 30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…

“Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.”

Men Facts Science Universe Names Mystery Shots All Things Miracle Absolutes Worthy

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”

People Needs Trying Believe Persons Difficult Figures Worthy

Author:Margaret Atwood