63 Befitting Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous befitting quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational befitting quotes. Hopefully, these befitting quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your befitting knowledge!
Famous Befitting Quotes
Let each man have according to his deserts. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. — Mark Twain
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. — Millard Fillmore
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation. — Owen Feltham
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people! — Teresa of Avila
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. — David Hume
Short Befitting Quotes
- The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. — Sir William Ramsay
- Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm. — Giorgio Armani
- Blind is his love, and best befits the dark. — William Shakespeare
- I get much more respect, as befits my age. And I have nothing to complain about. — Cheech Marin
- Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth. — Sophocles
- The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. — William Ramsay
People Writing About Befitting
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson |
4234 | 36527 |
 Marcus Tullius Cicero |
1036 | 10824 |
 Mark Twain |
2433 | 47813 |
 Millard Fillmore |
16 | 605 |
 Owen Feltham |
75 | 346 |
 Ali ibn Abi Talib |
158 | 13517 |
More Befitting Quotes
Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind. — Mia Couto
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right. — Mahatma Gandhi
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face. — Francis of Assisi
Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman. — Steven Weber
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it. — Honore de Balzac
The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire. — James Harrington
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. — Stendhal
The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory. — Kevin DeYoung
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man. — Henri B. Stendhal
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen. — John A. Macdonald
I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people. — Ronald Reagan
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men. — Tertullian
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive. — Jean De La Bruyere
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions. — David Liederman
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts. — Kahlil Gibran
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords. — Aristotle
A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity. — Thomas Carlyle
If everyone can say, looking at Obama, that is he is one of us, is that not befitting for the leading country in the world? — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it. — Dan Castellaneta
Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit." — Elif Batuman
Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation. — John F. Kennedy
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. — Lew Wallace
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. — Silius Italicus
These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts. — Helen Lawrenson
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts. — Ursula K. Le Guin
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience. — William Safire
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality. — Frederick William Robertson
The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. — William Butler Yeats
In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald. — Woody Allen
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God. — Johannes Kepler
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes. — Karl Pearson
As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it. — Ward Churchill
That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known. — Albert Camus
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain. — Dorothy L. Sayers
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. — Niccolo Machiavelli
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