#worthy

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

— Havelock Ellis

#aught #give #giving #how #know

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#more #must #rest #than #worthy

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#celebrate #celebration #club #clubs #day

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. ↗

— George Will

#between #born #end #freedom #government

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to. ↗

— Picabo Street

#anybody #body needs #just #look #mirror

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. ↗

— Mary Astell

#end #god #him #his #other

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believe #clearly #clemency #forgive #great

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complete #delivers #friends #hands #i

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

#between #delusion #exist #explain #form

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#empty #feel #felt #i #i feel