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Quotes About Deserved

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. —Romans 3:23–24
~ Gary Chapman
when a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. The only true gifts are such as you now receive.
~ Gene Wolfe
Your health benefits are not a gift - you work hard for them every day.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Some of the technicals I deserved. Cussing at the officials or throwing something. But some of them I didn't deserve.
~ Rasheed Wallace
Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered.
~ Samuel Johnson
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
~ Samuel Johnson
Therefore every breath we take, every time our heart beats, every day that the sun rises, every moment we see with our eyes or hear with our ears or speak with our mouths or walk with our legs is, for now, a free and undeserved gift to sinners who deserve only judgement.
~ John Piper
Gifts are free. If you work for a gift, it is no longer a gift. Gifts in the truest sense are undeserved. If we feel we deserve it, then it ceases to be a gift and becomes an award. The eternal life God gives us is truly a gift because we don't deserve it in any way.
~ John R. Cross
The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
~ John Lydon
How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled. "Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.
~ Maya Banks
In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.
~ Mark Twain
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
~ Ayn Rand
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
~ Ayn Rand
Virtue is the giving of undeserved.
~ Ayn Rand
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.
~ Stephen King
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
~ Erich Fromm
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes I even tell my relatives and my friends that I get a lot of love from the fans, and I'm not sure if it's deserved.
~ Diego Costa
I've been fortunate with the kind of work I've done, in terms of quality. But a lot of work didn't get the kind of release and attention that it deserved. And, I feel little let down by our distribution system.
~ Rasika Dugal
I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.
~ Gillian Flynn
I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase 'got what she deserved.' Sometimes women do.
~ Gillian Flynn
They deserved nothing less than the truth--a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose.
~ Graham Greene
We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?
~ Joel Schumacher