Quotes About Deserved

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Any good reward well deserved is well preserved.

Grace given when it feels least deserved is the only antidote for bitter rot. I

If there was ever a species that deserved purging from the surface of the planet, it is humanity. We are, or should be, a temporary infestation or infection, a smart virus awaiting its divine antidote.

And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring.

I thought treating everyone the same was being fair and impartial. Gradually I began to suspect that it was neither fair nor impartial. In fact, it was just the opposite. That's when I began announcing that team members wouldn't be treated the same or alike; rather, each one would receive the treatment they earned and deserved.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

It's complicated, " I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender."Talk slowly, " Jenna retorted derisively."Okay, I deserved that, " I admitted.

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.

Those whom God pardons must be made to know what their sin deserved, and how miserable they would have been if they had been unpardoned, that God's mercy may be the more magnified.

If I am responsible for having accrued a handsome share of worldly goods—income and wealth, power and prestige—I must deserve them. Success is a sign of virtue. My affluence is my due.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it. (P.220)

Tighe took control of his thoughts. "You need to use the bathroom. When I tell you to, go into the house. Two cats will try to come in with you. You must let them in. Don't allow anyone to stop them. Once inside the house, you'll go into the bathroom and close the door, pull down your pants, then curl up on the floor and go to sleep." The bastard's career would be over when they caught him, literally, with his pants down. But he deserved it for kicking a cat.

Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is." I feel my eyes go wet again. "Then how can you stand it? How can you bear even thinking it? It feels so dangerous, like you'll be punished for even thinking you deserved it." He touched my arm, just lightly. "Because, Viola, life is so much more terrifying without it.

It taught me to practice self-care in a spirit of giving to a child who needed and really deserved to be helped.