quotes about Worthy
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You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.
-- Abbi GlinesSource : Abbi Glines (2014). “Never Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
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Don’t become me. Don’t let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn’t. Be a man.
-- Abbi Glines -
You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love
-- Abbi Glines -
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Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief
-- Alfred Bester -
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
-- Alfred Nobel -
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Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.
-- Anne Bronte -
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
-- Ashoka -
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
-- Beth Moore -
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En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
-- Bob Goff -
For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
-- Brené Brown -
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To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.
-- Bryan AdamsSource : "Bryan Adams on learning to deal with fame". Interview with Shirley Halperin, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2011.
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Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.
-- Carl Yastrzemski -
To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Anything that is close to your heart is worthy of your time and commitment.
-- Colin Morgan -
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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
-- Confucius -
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
-- Confucius -
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
-- Criss Jami -
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
-- David DrakeSource : David Drake (2009). “Patriots”, p.39, Baen Publishing Enterprises
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He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will.
-- David Levithan -
When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.
-- Demi Lovato -
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
-- Denis Waitley -
We are all worthy of one another.
-- Edward P. JonesSource : Edward P. Jones (2009). “The Known World”, p.24, Harper Collins
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.
-- Francois Mauriac -
Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
-- Gamaliel Bailey -
The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.
-- Gary Gygax -
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
-- George Chapman -
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
-- George Parsons Lathrop -
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
-- Giacomo CasanovaSource : Giacomo Casanova (2000). “The Story of My Life”, Marsilio Pub
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Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
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Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
-- Harlan Ellison -
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
-- Havelock Ellis -
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
-- Horace -
We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
-- J. D. GreearSource : J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.30, B&H Publishing Group
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If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.
-- Jack Hyles -
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.
-- James Boswell -
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God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.
-- Jerry Bridges -
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach -
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
-- John Powell -
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
-- John Scalzi -
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To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
-- Joseph Joubert -
Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.
-- Julian Fellowes -
A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.
-- Konosuke Matsushita -
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1874). “Ninety-six Sermons: Sermons preached in Lent, on Good-Friday, and on Easter-day”, p.120
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Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Â Not everyone is worthy of your presence.
-- Ledisi -
Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.
-- Louis Farrakhan -
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
-- Luis Barragan -
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.
-- Margery Wilson -
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
-- Mary Astell -
Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.
-- Mary Balogh -
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.
-- Mary Oliver -
Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
-- Matthew Arnold -
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.
-- Maureen Corrigan -
One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.
-- Max Stirner -
and "good" doesn't mean he's worthy of you , does it ?
-- Melissa Marr -
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.
-- Mike Quigley -
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We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
-- Moshe Safdie -
It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.
-- Nadia Boulanger -
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
-- Natalie GoldbergSource : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.55, Shambhala Publications
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
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There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.
-- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov -
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
-- Orson Scott CardSource : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.394, Macmillan
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I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence
-- Paul Morabito -
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Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
-- Phil DonahueSource : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”
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To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.
-- Pierre Charron -
Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation
-- Pope Francis -
Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.
-- Pope John XXIIISource : Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”
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He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
-- Pope Urban II -
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
-- Quintus Ennius -
If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia.
-- Richard Bandler -
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Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.
-- Rita DoveSource : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.
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Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.
-- Robert Williams BuchananSource : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11
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Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.
-- Rumi -
I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.
-- Saint Basil -
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If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
-- Saint Patrick -
If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.
-- Sarah MacLean -
Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.
-- Saul GornSource : "Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés" by Saul Gorn, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, (p. 1), repository.upenn.edu. March 1992.
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Let's replace "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" with "Do unto others, after they show you they are worthy.
-- Sherry Argov -
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Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
-- Stan Lee -
How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.
-- Stephen CharnockSource : Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.277
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I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.
-- Sylvia Plath -
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
-- Thomas MertonSource : Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”
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He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword. -Hisagi Shuuhei
-- Tite Kubo -