Quotes About Entitlement

He reminded me of all the golden boys I'd known in my life- classically handsome and charmingly sure of his place at the very top of the heap, confident that the world was his and that he was safe in it, without ever having considered otherwise.

You're spoiled—that's all—just spoiled. Life must be great for you—do nothing and let someone else do everything.

The more we have and the easier life is, the more we take things for granted. Then we start sniveling as soon as things are less than perfect.

Daha önce de söylemiÅŸ olduÄŸum gibi, öfkelenmek yanl?? ya da doÄŸru hakl? ya da haks?z deÄŸildir. HissettiÄŸimiz her ÅŸeye hakk?m?z var.

If I could give you just one thing, I'd want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may prevent you from facing many problems that have hurt people who have never learned it. The truth is simply this: No one owes you anything.

The unrealistic belief that we are somehow entitled to go through life unmoved by other people's suffering further limits our ability to cope with our own.

child never allowed to give would surely become a self-indulgent adult, his happiness dependent upon whatever was put into his outstretched palm.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

Reading about Shelley and Byron I get awfully fed up, realizing that these men never did a day's work in their lives; they lived off the system, were free to travel all around Europe with entourages if necessary, never wrote about a guy earning a living. That is not the world I knew, that is not the world I want to be a part of, and by and large it's not a world I'm interested in. How

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Rich young troublemakers. The western world is full of such people.

We're just going to play rock and roll and not do anything else; we're going to stay in our rooms, and the world is a nasty, horrible place because it didn't give us everything we cried for. Right?

A woman, feeling sorry for a beggar who had come to her door, invited him in and offered him food. On the table was a pile of dark bread—and a few slices of challah. The shnorrer (beggar) promptly fell upon the challah. "There's black bread, too," the woman hinted. "I prefer challah." "But challah is much more expensive!" "Lady," said the beggar, "it's worth it." That, I think, is chutzpa.

If members of the elite come to think that their privilege was historically justified and earned, it will be hard to persuade them to yield opportunity to others.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him poor Richard, been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead.

Well, said Anne, 'I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.

I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other;

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others. T

eu intotdeauna merit cel mai bun tratament, pentru ca altceva nu accept.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their

Existem pessoas que, quanto mais você faz por elas, menos elas fazem por si mesmas.