Unworthy Quotes

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

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

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

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

Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.

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.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

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

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

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

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

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

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —