Unworthy Quotes

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde

Idea, Dangerous

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

Idea, Dangerous

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama

Love, Freedom, Patriotism

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enjoy, Holy, Fame

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quite, Task, Sides

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell

Courage, Die, Cause

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Single, Universe, Ask

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics, Political, Winning

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

Good, Moving, Become

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II

Great, Sacrifice, Wealth

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch

God, Him, Opinion

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Mort Sahl

Everything, Deserve, Liberals

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth I

Rather, Reputation, Suffer

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Political, Winning, Win

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
Pierre Corneille

Life, Live, Infamy

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.
Ron Fournier

Job, Negative, Against

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
George Whitefield

Peace, Evil, Jesus

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
Jane Fonda

Love, Felt, Empty

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
Rachael Ray

Food, Husband, Feeling

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith Sitwell

Hope, Fire, Become

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren

God, Power, Best

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
William Graham Sumner

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
Jim Caviezel

Jesus, Play, Said

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
Jennifer Weiner

Family, Woman, Book

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
Claire Danes

Felt, Behind, Liked

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.
Thomas Haden Church

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
Whittaker Chambers

God, Why, Grace

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Francis Walsingham

God, Nothing, Person

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
Nicolas Malebranche

Faith, Fear, Long

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
Nicolas Malebranche

Yourself, Judge, Him

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