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Quotes About Deserved

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
~ Russell Lynes
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
Aborrecía los afectos sin causa, tal como aborrecía la riqueza inmerecida.
~ Ayn Rand
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
~ William Hazlitt
Strangely enough, no one can simply go ahead and do another person harm. You first have to convince yourself that the other has deserved it.
~ Ernst Junger
For the labourer is worthy of his hire.
~ Bible
Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Some labels are bad enough: Troublemaker. Bad-tempered. Rebel. I could live with those. I deserved them. Other labels like thief hurt worse and follow you longer.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled. "Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.
~ Maya Banks
Objective tests of managerial ability are few and far from scientific. In most cases the investor must rely upon a reputation which may or may not be deserved.
~ Benjamin Graham
Football sometimes has a bad reputation. Some of that is deserved... and some of it isn't.
~ Juan Mata
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
~ Tacitus
When that holiday party or happy hour comes along, shut her on down. Turn off the Blackberry, put your phone on silent, and go get 'em at the party. After all, you're about the only one who's earned it.
~ Mark Schlereth
A kid deserved to take pride and joy in his identity.
~ Susan Wiggs
And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved.
~ Judy Duarte
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
One must stick by one's principles or else the fabric of society crumbles. If a child of mine deserved it, I would hang him myself.
~ Sophie Hannah
Those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserved neither and would lose both. The
~ Brad Thor
Those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserved neither and would lose both.
~ Brad Thor
Because you deserved it! Because you should know what it feels like! How bad it hurts, you self-centered asshole!
~ Sylvia Day
This was just too improbable, a man who didn't think he deserved a prize.
~ Julie Phillips
She gave him precisely the look of disgust he deserved for such a statement, and strode away without another word.
~ Kamila Shamsie
I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'
~ Brie Larson
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
~ Tacitus