A Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Lincoln

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Recognition Recognized Strive Worry Worthy

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Abraham Lincoln
American - President
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.

Rebecca Goldstein

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry.

Kyle Chandler

So many people look up to pageants, including young girls and young boys. The message that I would hate to send to them is that you're only deemed worthy of a title or worthy of recognition or of success if you fit in a certain number.

Catriona Gray

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Baruch Spinoza

If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.

Philip Yancey

Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

Confucius

It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.

Vidal Sassoon

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Jules Renard

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

K'naan

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.

Kyle Chandler

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

David Mitchell

Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.

St. Catherine of Siena

Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.

Arthur W. Pink

Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.