#worthy

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#himself #man #only #wise #wise man

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#direct #figures #give #i #i think

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime. ↗

— Daymond John

#also #am #buying #come #enjoy

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#awards #comedy #consideration #deserving #drama

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

#authority #because #become #church #discipline

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

#am #any #campaign #enough #experienced

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#charge #committed #defend #destinies #enabled

Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't deserve or you aren't worthy. You do. You are. ↗

— Lesley Livingston

#deserve #fenn #love #mason #starling

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

#attained #fidelity #purpose #through #true

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

#between #delusion #exist #explain #form