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Quotes About Worthiness

What's more worse: Not being Loved or not worthy to be Lusted?
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
You can have all the money in the world, but if you're not a good candidate, it doesn't matter.
~ Lara Trump
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
~ Raymond Chandler
How can such a hard man be so gentle? she asked wonderingly. If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
~ Raymond Chandler
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. In the case of arate, the direction of the because can seem a little vaguer, so that it can sometimes seem almost as if someone is regarded as worthy because they are recognized.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?
~ Richard Bach
to pray': 'to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy'.
~ Richard Dawkins
To adapt Alice's comment on her sister's book before she fell into Wonderland, what is the use of a God who does no miracles and answers no prayers? Remember Ambrose Bierce's witty definition of the verb 'to pray': 'to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy'.
~ Richard Dawkins
to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy'.
~ Richard Dawkins
Ambrose Bierce's witty definition of the verb 'to pray': 'to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy'.
~ Richard Dawkins
Today, I stand firm in my own worthiness. My dignity is solid and enduring. My faith is the rock on which I build my life. I dare to risk and I risk my daring. I am large enough to survive my losses and enjoy my gains.
~ Julia Cameron
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
~ Julie Andrews
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.
~ Samuel Johnson
We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.
~ William Shakespeare
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
~ Teresa of Avila
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
~ Edward Abbey
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
~ Alexander Smith
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.
~ Blaise Pascal
The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.
~ Brigham Young
A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
~ Martin Luther
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?
~ Michel de Montaigne
But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
~ Monica Lewinsky