Behooves Quotes

#1. Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Vince Lombardi

#2. It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.

Letitia Baldrige

#4. He who is not always ready to suffer and to stand completely at the will of his beloved is not worthy to be called a lover, for it behooves a lover gladly to suffer all hard and bitter things for his beloved, and not to fall from love because of any irksome thing that may befall him.

Thomas A Kempis

#5. It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. You and I, in our quest for truth, must set ourselves on a higher level. If the worldly reasoner
is like a butcher, we wish not to be found like them - minus fingers or thumbs. Spiritual reasoning
can be a very sharp blade; it behooves us, then, to 'rightly divide'.

D.L. Herring

#7. It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.

Ellis Peters

#8. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. [I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

John Mandeville

#10. If a Martian were watching our television shows, he'd conclude that guns were more common than hammers. They're not evil themselves--they're tools--but everywhere you go, bad people have them. It behooves the righteous to at least know how they work.

John Sandford

#11. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...

Abraham Lincoln

#12. It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

Plato

#13. Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Alice Childress

#14. The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

John Kador

#16. When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

Stephen Lang

#17. It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Homer

#18. One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Francois Rabelais

#19. If you can't feel the touch of the gods on your own, it greatly behooves you to work on that before some lecher tells you his touch is just as good.

Thomm Quackenbush

#20. If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics ...

Roger Bacon

#21. It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Jean Racine

#22. In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.

Emma Goldman

#23. It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.

Peter Canisius

#24. It behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#25. It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

William Safire

#26. I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

Evan Williams

#27. I want to suggest that to write to your best abilities, it behooves you to construct your own toolbox and then build up enough muscle so you can carry it with you. Then, instead of looking at a hard job and getting discouraged, you will perhaps seize the correct tool and get immediately to work.

Stephen King

#28. The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

James K. Morrow

#29. Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

George F. Kennan

#30. It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

John Calvin

#31. From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#32. It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.

Lisa J. Shultz