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Quotes About Deserved

War was for warriors, and any man who visited its horrors on the helpless deserved whatever ingenuities the dark and secret places of the mind could conceive.
~ Peter Morwood
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
~ Boris Pasternak
I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less fair for having missed the applause it deserved.
~ Pliny the Younger
Our products weren't getting some of the excitement they deserved because you were waiting on hold on the phone, or we missed an appointment.
~ Brian L. Roberts
Seeing somebody get what they earned is always a blessing.
~ Khalil Mack
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
~ Phaedrus
Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
~ Walt Whitman
Money is only for those who deserved it.
~ Daniell Porsche
If the losers are dead, the dead are also losers. There is a contradiction here: If the prize for winning finite play is life, then the players are not properly alive. They are competing for life. Life, then, is not play, but the outcome of play. Finite players play to live; they do not live their playing. Life is therefore deserved, bestowed, possessed, won. It is not lived.
~ James P Carse
His face had grown so poisonous to her that now she wouldn't even touch the photograph except to pick it up by the edges. The despair of her house was the work of his hand. He deserved to die. Throwing the snake on his grandmother had given her no relief. It was him she wanted.
~ Donna Tartt
I didn't like the way Andrew Peacock was not supported in 1984. He'd done well in that election; he deserved to continue. But by the end of '85, he was out.
~ Malcolm Fraser
Bloody hell, were you this annoying with my father?" "I fear I was more so, my lord. I was younger then and could go on and on and on—" "Good. The old bastard deserved a difficult time." "So many people believe.
~ Karen Hawkins
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.
~ Martin Amis
Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.
~ Antonio Tarver
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
~ Mark Twain
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.
~ Erich Fromm
I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.
~ Steven Conrad
Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.
~ Erich Fromm
The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.
~ Frank Rich
Love is deserved, not desired.
~ Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
~ William Hazlitt
It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.
~ Kendrick Lamar