Worthy Quotes

The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyalty, will employ him close at hand and observe his degree of respect. He will hand him troublesome affairs and observe how well he manages them, will suddenly ask his advice and observe how wisely he answers. He will exact some difficult promise from him and see how well he keeps it, turn over funds to him and see with what benevolence he dispenses them, inform him of the danger he is in and note how faithful he is to his duties. He will get him drunk with wine and observe how well he handles himself, place him in mixed company and see what effect beauty has upon him. By applying these nine tests, you may determine who is the unworthy man.

~ Confucius

Captain Harald Biscay rubbed his graying temples, staring deep in thought at the vast star field showing on the large navigation display on the bridge. It had been a pretty rough few days for him. Of all the things he’d seen in his travels through the universe, not many rated worthy of being remembered. Of the few examples of items Captain Biscay rated that highly, when he was a young man, his uncle would often play the bagpipes at strange hours of the night – shortly before being put in a ‘home’. That rated a mention.

~ Christina Engela

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

~ Lloyd Alexander

The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.

~ John Eldredge

If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world, offer your silence with smile.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.

~ John Eldredge

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

~ Tracy Kidder

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

~ Franz Kafka

Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and it's all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything is fun in the sun! Where's the discernment? Where's the arbitration that separates what I LIKE from what I RESPECT, what I deem WORTHY, what has... listen to me now... SIGNIFICANCE.

~ John Logan

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.

~ Jedidiah Jenkins

You are a creative expression of the universe. You are worthy.

~ Russell Eric Dobda

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

~ Ryan Lilly

But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.

~ Sara Baume

The way to control circumstances is to control the forces within yourself to make a greater man of yourself, and as you become greater and more competent, you will naturally gravitate into better circumstances. In this connection, we should remember that like attracts like. If you want that which is better, make yourself better. If you want to realize the ideal, make yourself more ideal. If you want better friends, make yourself a better friend. If you want to associate with people of worth, make yourself more worthy. If you want to meet that which is agreeable, make yourself more agreeable. If you want to enter conditions and circumstances that are more pleasing, make yourself more pleasing. In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

~ Christian D. Larson

But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?

~ Melissa Broder

He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every bit of you is worthy of your loving.

~ Pat Rodegast

I have two ways of loving You: A selfish one And another way that is worthy of You. In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone. In that other love, You lift the veil And let me feast my eyes on Your living face.

~ Rabia Al-Adawiyya

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

~ P.l. Travers

Take a chance on me and I will prove how worthy your life is.

~ Heenashree Khandelwal

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.

~ Epicurus

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

~ Molière

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

~ Thomas Paine

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

~ Abraham Lincoln

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

~ Pierre Corneille

There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

~ T. E. Lawrence

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

~ Leslie Caron

To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

~ Oscar Homolka

There is no victory without pain.

~ Lolita Lebron

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

~ Golda Meir

Excellence costs a great deal.

~ May Sarton

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

~ Abigail Van Buren

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

~ Thomas Fuller

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

~ Sa'di