Be Worthy Quotes

In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

The fact is that there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy or more conscious than you.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.

I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.