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Quotes About Deserved

What kind of job you aiming to get? The kind where a man gets paid what he's owed.
~ Chris Offutt
We clearly were on the same team. You killed over a dozen of the bastards and I wasn't about to reward you by killing you. They deserved it.
~ Christine Feehan
It was enough to marvel at the end of a cycle of reprisals. How seldom it happened, in a long-standing war of hatred, that one side said, "Enough, I deserved that. Let it end here.
~ Laini Taylor
I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.
~ Gilbert Arenas
The Undertaker stood up for what was right. He earned everything he got.
~ Bret Hart
But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Revenge is more wild, less calculated . . . deeply personal." "And retribution?" Rapp thought about it for a moment and then answered in a very clear voice. "Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved.
~ Vince Flynn
Tony didn't lose his temper. Because of his size, he never had to. And he had a gentle touch, even when he wasn't being gentle. Tony's personality could be read right off his face. He was never mean, and fair all the way through. If he ever hurt someone, it was deserved.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Old Biddy slept the peaceful sleep she deserved, the sweet blessed rest that comes to all those who have reached the end of their lives; as Bid had now come to hers.
~ Thomas Tryon
Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right—an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible.
~ Og Mandino
Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.
~ Orson Scott Card
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
~ Walt Whitman
The best gifts are never given, but claimed.
~ Warren Ellis
The sovereignty of God is absolute; yet it is never exercised in condemning men who ought to be saved, but rather, it has resulted in salvation of men who deserved to be lost.
~ Charles R. Erdman
that we got what we deserved in life.
~ Harold S. Kushner
There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.
~ John Brown
Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.
~ Chip Ingram
I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same I desired some sort of reward.
~ Henri Barbusse
Countess Bezukhova quite deserved her reputation of being a fascinating woman. She could say what she did not think—especially what was flattering—quite simply and naturally.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.
~ Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.
~ Gilbert Arenas
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
~ Jordan Peterson