Quotes About Entitlement

The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

el comité se convirtió en una casta y se creó una religión para justificar los privilegios.

It did not occur to any of them that their decision was born of a colossal sense of entitlement, this notion that they could just step away from yesterday and start tomorrow as if it wasn't a part of the same week, to move beyond memory and roots and language and race into the land of the self-made self, which is another way of saying, America.

Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics—by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck. Is

And those of us who work hard and follow the rules would not "deserve" our success in any deep sense.

Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics—by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

He felt like an addict, out of control, unable to stop himself from taking what he imagined he was entitled to, not yet understanding that no one is entitled to anything other than his freedom and the choices he makes.

no one is entitled to anything other than his freedom and the choices he makes.

they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

The concept of entitlement is familiar jargon in discussions of race and class, and it is just as widespread in the realm of disability. It's the idea that we are acting as if someone owes us something rather than merely asking to be treated with the respect and human dignity we deserve. It is the belief that people of a certain status or apparent condition have no right to demand better because we should just be happy with whatever we get. We should be happy we have anything at all.

the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another!

No one gets what they deserve.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

Never to want for anything, or work for anything, or show the tiniest grain of self-discipline in a whole life must give a man a strange outlook on the world,

Men are greedy, aren't they? No gratitude. They don't think about what they've already got from you, only about what they can get next.

The Devil knows that only those with the courage to risk their souls for love are entitled to have a soul, even if God does not.