logo

Quotes About Deserving

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
~ Ada Leverson
I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.
~ Geena Davis
If crowns were only for the most beautiful and intelligent heads, Mercedès would be a queen now.
~ Alexandre Dumas
fait pour être si facilement heureux! Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir, et moi, en vérité, je ne sais en quoi j'ai mérité le bonheur d'être le mari de Mercédès.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir, et moi, en vérité, je ne sais en quoi j'ai mérité le bonheur d'être le mari de Mercédès.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Very little worth anything is ever given away.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man, and in all ways has proved Herself a more deserving object of man's worship than Christ, that unshaven fanatic who lusted for the end of the world.
~ Joe Hill
If you want to make God happy, if you want to put a smile on His face, go to Him with boldness, go to Him like you know He's proud of you, like you know you deserve to be there, like you know He wants to be good to you.
~ Joel Osteen
If you want to make God happy, if you want to put a smile on His face, go to Him with boldness, go to Him like you know He's proud of you, like you know you deserve to be there, like you know He wants to be good to you. Ask Him for your dreams. Pray bold prayers. You're not inconveniencing Him. You don't have to earn God's love. You don't have to work for His approval. You don't have to pay God back for your mistakes.
~ Joel Osteen
How much time are you spending down on yourself, feeling guilty for past mistakes, telling God what you don't deserve? That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good. God hears you; He knows you're sincere. But God is not moved by our guilt; He's moved by our faith.
~ Joel Osteen
Judge if you want. We are all going to die; I intend to deserve it.
~ Joey Comeau
Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every day must conquer them anew.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
~ Nick Mancuso
We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.
~ E.M. Forster
Because I'm worth it!
~ Anonymous
O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem [O happy fault, which has deserved to have such and so mighty a Redeemer].
~ Anonymous
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
~ Anonymous
Thou renderest to every man according to his work.
~ Anonymous
Maybe he was dead and this island was purgatory from which he could only watch the souls of the more deserving go shuttling past to their various Edens. What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you?
~ Anthony Doerr
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
~ A. J. Liebling
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
~ Lady Gregory
I wasn't happier for anyone more than Vic Fangio. He deserved to be a head coach, in my opinion. I was really pulling for him and pushing him whenever I got a chance.
~ Bruce Arians
I think everyone deserves their place in this sport, and Bisping has been around, and he's fought hard and deserves to be the champion.
~ Anderson Silva