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Quotes About Worthiness

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
~ Mark Twain
Act Like a Prize and You'll Turn Him into a Believer.
~ Sherry Argov
Failing honestly and with integrity was something I could accept—but only if I was sure that my efforts to succeed had been worthy of the trust he had placed in me.
~ Shimon Peres
Worthiness is what gives meaning and fulfillment. Success without fulfillment is empty. That's like good looks without goodness. In life we need substance over form, not form over substance.
~ Shiv Khera
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.
~ Sidney Poitier
I don't deserve you. You know that, querida, don't you? (Alex)
~ Simone Elkeles
You shouldn't love me. I don't deserve you.
~ Simone Elkeles
Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.
~ Martin Luther
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
~ James A. Baldwin
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It's hard to feel desire when you don't feel desirable
~ Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor
Those who deserve love the least need it the most.
~ Austin O'Malley
If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
~ Brene Brown
The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.
~ Norris Church Mailer
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
He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling
~ Abbi Glines
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
~ Salman Rushdie
To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.
~ Thomas Merton
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
~ Brene Brown
Imagine that . . . unworthy of the touch of a man, yet worthy of the touch of God.
~ Max Lucado