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Quotes About Deserved

Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
I think Aquaman feels - and deservedly so - like an A-list, premier DC hero. I hope that carries on; it certainly will carry over to Justice League.
~ Geoff Johns
I don't want that title to come to my hands and be like, 'nah, I don't feel like it was deserved or it wasn't earned or whatever' - not saying that any of my accolades weren't, but I want it to be special. I want it to be super special and just super dope, and even if it's not special to everybody else, at least it is to me.
~ Tony Ferguson
I've certainly had many more opportunities than I deserved, but luckily enough I ended up making the right choices.
~ Alex Zanardi
Medina Spirit is a deserved champion and I will continue to fight for him.
~ Bob Baffert
I'm happy that Holloway is the champion. An example, someone who deserved being where he is.
~ Jose Aldo
When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.
~ Gilbert Arenas
I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.
~ Dick Durbin
They were all buried quickly, quietly, without the attention, the traditions, they deserved, the way people always are in a time of plague
~ Rick Bragg
Fools deserved whatever their foolishness brought.
~ Robert Jordan
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
~ Ovid
A cold sentiment deserved a frigid end.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
~ Sophia Loren
And she deserved it.
~ Jenny Lee
The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always dependent on God's grace, His undeserved favor to those who deserve His wrath. Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.
~ Jerry Bridges
Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.
~ Andrew Miller
To Penelope, men were conquests, attributes, but they were also enemies; they belonged to the species that must never be granted more than the amount of time and attention she considered they deserved.
~ Anita Brookner
As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen — the last day I deserved — would have involved more chocolate.
~ Robin Wasserman
She had brought all of this on herself, and so she had, in a sense, got what she deserved. But, even so, she had a soul like everyone else, and one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for reveling in the misfortunes of another.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
She had brought all of this on herself, and so she had, in a sense, got what she deserved. But, even so, Mma Ramotswe reminded herself, she had a soul like everyone else, and one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for reveling in the misfortunes of another.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
honesty required one to remind oneself that when there were bills to be paid, an offer of money was harder to reject than when there were no such bills. Other people's money, we tell ourselves, is always less deserved than our own.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
No one in that room had deserved death. He
~ Douglas E. Richards
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
~ Ayn Rand
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.
~ Ayn Rand