The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
If you are reserving your love only for those who you have decided are worthy of it – all strangers excluded – it may come as a surprise to learn that this is not love at all, it is called judgment.
The simple fact that you're alive makes you worthy.
When the Lord, who just then came by, saw that, he was angry, and said, henceforth shall the stalks of corn bear no more ears, men are no longer worthy of heavenly gifts.
The fox, too, appeared quite honest, and said, worthy mrs.
I may let the worthy old woman in, thought snow-white, and she unbolted the door and bought the pretty laces.
Then she wept bitterly and said, I have done great wrong, and am not worthy to be your wife.
She is not worthy of a king.
He was undecided, and knew not if he were worthy of this, but the doves counselled him to do it, and at length he said yes.
Then said the virgin mary 'you have not obeyed me, and besides that you have lied, you are no longer worthy to be in heaven.
With bright eyes and grateful hearts they read the blessed inscription on the column: " 'The King has decreed that serfdom shall cease, the agrarian laws be set in order and enforced, so that the free peasant may become brave and enlightened, diligent and good, a worthy and happy citizen!
I know a very worthy, honest old stork who has had a great deal of experience, and has brought many little ones out of the water, and knows their stories - in which there is always a little mud and duckweed from the millpond.
The sausage was one of the weightiest reasons why the worthy management refused in future to have any spectators up in the flies.
' And in the midst of the pleasure that was afforded by the mere meeting of these folks, there shot up out of the great dirt-heap at Amager a stem, a tree, an immense flower, a great mushroom, a perfect roof, which formed a sort of warehouse for the worthy company, for in it hung everything they had given to the world during the Old Year.
And when the psalms of the Christians sound across the churchyard, their echo reaches her lonely resting-place; and she who sleeps there will be counted worthy at the resurrection, through the name of Christ the Lord, who said to His disciples, "John baptized you with water, but I will baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
I know a worthy man, an artisan, who wishes to marry you.
But in the hall the baron's daughter flew to the place of honour at the end of the table—she was worthy to sit there; the pastor's son had the seat next to her; the two sat there as if they were a bridal pair.
The poets sang of this rose, the loveliest in the world, and each named one which he considered worthy of that title; and intelligence of what was required was sent far and wide to every heart that beat with love; to every class, age, and condition.
They were a very worthy old couple, I can remember them well in the days of my boyhood.
