Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. (Quote by - Russell Baker)

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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. (Quote by - George Whitefield)

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

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

He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation. (Quote by - Francis Scott Key)

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. (Quote by - Francis Walsingham)

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

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

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. (Quote by - Edith Sitwell)

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

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

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. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)

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

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. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. (Quote by - Mort Sahl)

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. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy. (Quote by - Anna Julia Cooper)

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

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. (Quote by - William Graham Sumner)

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

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

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. (Quote by - Nelson Algren)