Worthy Things Quotes:

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.

topic: Motivational, Spiritual, Self Esteem, Worthy Of Love, Worthy Things

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Physical Beauty, Long Relationship

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

topic: Men, Arena, Credit, Strong Man, Putting Yourself Out There

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Wise, Fear, Reality, Worthy Things

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

- Anthony Minghella

source: "‘Childhood Is Not a Geographical Place’: Arwad ‘s Samer Najari and Dominique Chila" by E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2014.

topic: Feelings, Sometimes, Speak, Worthy Things, Not Belonging

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

- Mark Twain

topic: Fighting, Men, Sight, Worthy Things

Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.

- Matthew Zapruder

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Real, Book, Reading, Worthy Things, Amazing Book

People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.

- Kristen Stewart

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Running, People, Buzz, Worthy Things

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life . . . significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.

- Grenville Kleiser

source: Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

topic: Heart, Long, Mind, Less Fortunate, Worthy Things

"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?

- William Bennett

topic: Mean, Heart, Honor, Worthy Things, Sheepdogs

The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Courage, Flower, Inspiration, Days To Come, Worthy Things

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

- George Will

source: George F. Will (2010). “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball”, p.2, Harper Collins

topic: Sports, Religious, Greek, Worthy Things

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

- Neil Gaiman

source: "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

topic: Cages, Way, Sometimes, Worthy Things

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

- Plautus

topic: Perseverance, Worthy, Happens, Worthy Things

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

- Maureen Dowd

topic: People, Charity, Earth, Worthy Things