Quotes About Worthiness

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.

When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.

He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.

He needed to know she wanted to be with him. He needed to know someone loved him. He didn't believe himself worthy of love, so he had a difficult time believing she really wanted to be with him.

I have come to believe that fate hands us our destiny. Maybe I needed to endure the things in my life to be worthy of traveling by your side. Maybe you needed to endure your life in order to fulfill a great destiny. What we did shaped us and honed us into what we are now.

Prayer: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favor of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy.

Prayer: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favor of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy. Everybody

They think that we are too old and useless. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

That's one of my major themes in Firefly Lane—that we need to accept that we are good enough, that all we can do is our best.

Unlike me, Bobby will never know the nagging ache of an absent father; he will have the loss of his mother inside him, like a thin shadow on a bright day, standing close, but he won't have that dragging sense that he was unloved, somehow, unworthy

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you. Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.

I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does.-Damon Salvatore, S2

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.

We are all unworthy of a good woman's love," I answered. "But, thank Heaven, the good women don't seem to realise it.

Everyone dies, and yet it's unendurable. There is so much love inside of us. How do we become worthy of it? And, then, where does it go? A worldwide crescendo of grief, sustained day after day, and only one tiny note of it is mine.

But I think it might be fair to say that all the reasons intersect and have one thing in common: too many people can't believe they deserve someone wonderful.

This was how it was done; you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is a treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along.

This was how it was done: you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is a treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along. The trials and the beast were just a way of telling the world you wanted it, and the world asking in her hard way, hard as bones and hollow mountains, if you really and truly did.