Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. . who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.
Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth. ' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it. '
Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
Am I worthy in every respect of being imitated?
The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government. '
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning of the Universe, in which our globe, like a speck of abandoned matter, escapes our vision and is no longer an object worthy of our regard. In order to fix our vision, it is necessary to take it such as it is, to observe well all parts of it, and by indications infer from the present to the past.
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
We magnify Him who is worthy above all others and adore Him simply because of who He is.
One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.
It is more worthy in the eyes of God. . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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 a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.
When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.