Quotes About Entitlement

Such return awaits thy passion as thy passion merits.

That's how life is. Some dogs get treats for doing almost nothing, and some dogs are good dogs and get no treats at all.

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

Every institution, it seems, runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

But you remember this—great wealth or position is not a right, and you don't deserve it however hard you work. It is chance, and the labor of others, that brings a man wealth. Don't forget that others have earned your fortune for you. Never imagine you deserve it.

And most of all, it's such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny's age, don't think that way. Parents don't. Older people don't. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.

I think, is a maddening thing to say on so many levels. As if the Internet is a fantasy world, inhabited by imaginary people. As if we're ordinary people in the first place. And most of all, it's such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny's age, don't think that way. Parents don't. Older people don't. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.

Ryan's parents, no less than Sam's, were of that portion of the post-war generation that rejected the responsibilities of tradition and embraced entitlement. Sometimes it seemed to him that he was the parent, that his mother and father were the children. Regardless of the consequences of their behavior and decisions, they would see no need for redemption. Giving them the chance to earn it would only offend them.

Life is a gift, however long it lasts. It's God's to give and take away as He sees fit. We go through life thinking we're entitled to our ninety, but we're not entitled to anything. All we can do is trust that He knows what He's doing. That He has a plan for all of us, and that no pain He allows in our life will go unused.

He would have just kept coming," Bob said. "Once someone takes something from you and you let them? They don't feel gratitude, they just feel like you owe them something more.

I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.

I used to say the world was my ATM.

I've got friends who want money but don't want to do anything to earn it.

I've earned the right to be paid the highest in the league.

I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

This is America. You're entitled to believe what you want.

I can't really act entitled.

Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want.

We are all entitled to our own opinion.

I'm going to end up with a lot more money than I feel like I'm entitled to, given how hard I work.

I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious.