Best Unworthy Quotes
259 Unworthy quotes by 222 unique authors
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
— Samuel Johnson
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Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.
— Adolf Hitler
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I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
— Jim Caviezel
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Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
— Roger Ebert
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What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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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
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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…
— William James
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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only…
— Nelson Algren
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The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
— Emile M. Cioran
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Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it…
— Gorgias
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You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.
— Robert E. Lee
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Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be…
— Coventry Patmore
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Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.
— Gautama Buddha
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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
— Plato
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For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget…
— Paulo Coelho
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He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life
— Pierre Corneille
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Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain…
— Henry Mackenzie
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
— Pope John Paul II
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