Best Worthy Proverbs
1482 Worthy quotes by 1035 unique authors
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I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
— Edward Abbey
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people,…
— Edward Abbey
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
— Edward Abbey
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern…
— Edward Abbey
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We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and…
— John Dewey
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
— Charles de Gaulle
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Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and…
— Viola Spolin
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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss…
— Hart Crane
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You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
— Harlan Ellison
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Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as…
— Napoleon Hill
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Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
— Napoleon Hill
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One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge…
— Jim Rohn
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I hope everyone will feel good about supporting a worthy cause that helps educate people and saves lives while wearing a cool looking shirt that…
— Unknown Author
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I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them…
— Unknown Author
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the…
— George Washington
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Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now.…
— Rhonda Byrne
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
— Igor Stravinsky
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Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be…
— Eric Liddell
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When I was younger it was, you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to…
— Colin Hanks
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The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the best thing he can do is be faithful to his Savior in every aspect of…
— Francis Chan
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