Quotes About Entitlement

The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

Before qualifying and deserving the rights, one should realize and adopt the obligations that constitute and carry all the rights.

Do not claim to be something you are not eligible and entitled, for that. Nature never forgive such a claim. Sooner, or later your reality will be visible to everyone, and it is your self-defeat and self-destruction.

Do not claim to be something you are not eligible, and entitled, for that. Nature never forgives such a claim. Sooner, or later your reality will be visible to everyone, and it is your self-defeat and self-destruction.

Never pose that what you never deserve nor can be.

Há essa presunção em quem se sente predestinado às artes, sobretudo à literatura: trabalha-se como alguém que tivesse recebido uma investidura, mas de fato ninguém jamais nos investiu de coisa nenhuma, fomos nós que demos a nós mesmos a autorização para sermos autores, mas lamentamos quando os outros dizem: essa ninharia que você fez não me interessa, aliás, me entedia, quem lhe deu o direito.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.

How confident the other people in the class seemed to be in the rights that had been conferred on them by being there first—which was really only a matter of luck, because their aunts hadn't happened to call just then. Where, exactly, did they want me to go? Did they want me to just not exist? Was that how the Israelis and Palestinians felt about each other?

I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen. Some of you will say to me: You signed the contract, you crying bitch, and you fought in a war because of your signature, no one held a gun to your head. This is true, but because I signed the contract and fulfilled my obligation to fight one of America's wars, I am entitled to speak, to say, I belong to a fucked situation.

The transformation of charity into legal entitlement has produced donors without love and recipients without gratitude.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all.

A person who enjoys at the cost of other people's hard work in any profession can be spotted often relishing luxury with own family on the hill station.

The loan taken by celeb parents to lead a lavish & luxurious lifestyle has to be paid in installments by their child by ignorantly working through his days of kindergarten.

Ah, the superior masochism of the privileged.

Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.

Privilege: the belief that because a dog has been carefully trained not to bite YOUR ass, that is has no teeth.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.