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Quotes About Deserve

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
~ Maureen Dowd
If you think I can stop Peter and Yash on their quest for comedy glory," Sebastian said to her, "you have more faith in me than I deserve
~ Maureen Johnson
He stood looking up at her; it was not a glance, but an act of ownership. She thought she must let her face give him the answer he deserved. But she was looking, instead, at the stone dust on his burned arms, the wet shirt clinging to his ribs, the lines of his long legs. She was thinking of those statues of men she had always sought; she was wondering what he would look like naked. She saw him looking at her as if he knew that.
~ Ayn Rand
That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved.
~ Ayn Rand
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money—and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.
~ Ayn Rand
you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it—that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved.
~ Ayn Rand
To love a man for his virtues is paltry and human, it tells you; to love him for his flaws is divine. To love those who are worthy of it is self-interest; to love the unworthy is sacrifice. You owe your love to those who don't deserve it, and the less they deserve it, the more love you owe them—the more loathsome the object, the nobler your love—the more unfastidious your love, the greater the virtue
~ Ayn Rand
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
~ Ayn Rand
He never seeks or desires the unearned.
~ Ayn Rand
It takes no kindness to respect a man who deserves respect - it's only payment which he's earned. To give an unearned respect is the supreme gesture of charity
~ Ayn Rand
No es preciso esforzarse en respetar a quien merece respeto; tan sólo se le paga lo que es debido.
~ Ayn Rand
the notion of grace as a recognition that we are fundamentally flawed and weak and confused. We don't deserve grace, but we get it sometimes.
~ Barack Obama
Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve
~ Steven Chboksy
It's really only nuclear weapons that deserve the WMD acronym.
~ Steven Pinker
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Those who do not love life do not deserve it.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Get the love you deserve and gave your partner the love and support he deserves
~ John Gray
But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.
~ Augusten Burroughs
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me.
~ Louise Hay