Worthier Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking…
— Yoshida Kenko
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It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]…
— Michael Moorcock
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
— Laozi
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The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
— Martial
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Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy…
— John Mason Brown
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It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
— Meister Eckhart
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The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the…
— Meister Eckhart
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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
— Mark Twain
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Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier…
— Arthur Miller
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Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a…
— Charlotte Bronte
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One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Frienship values worthier when across the limits
— Kavinder Kanwar
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Then think I thus: sith such repair, So long time war of valiant men, Was all to win a lady fair, Shall I not learn…
— Henry Howard Surrey Earl Of
Who Wrote These Worthier Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Worthier Quotes as follows: