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Quotes About Deserving

Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
~ Francesca Lia Block
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
~ Andrew Cohen
Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.
~ Mario Balotelli
Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it's about sporting achievements and it's about personality, then I'm a winner hands down.
~ Tyson Fury
Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.
~ Jessie Cave
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
~ Hank Azaria
You're nice. You aren't like the rest of them. I like you very much... — I've done nothing to deserve that. — One doesn't have to do anything to deserve that...
~ Romain Gary
I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it
~ Louise Hay
A slave must at all costs be slightly, if not superlatively, contemptible. An assortment of chronic moral and physical defects justifies the horrible treatment he is getting. Then the earth turns more smoothly, for each man occupies the place he deserves. A person you make use of should
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
How can someone so loved look so constantly for reasons to be unworthy of it?
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
the sense of entitlement [...] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world
~ Malcolm Gladwell
You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given to people who did nothing to deserve it.
~ Anais Nin
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
~ Ann Brashares
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better
~ Ann Brashares
Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And when you can't stand yourself, you don't want people around who are constantly saying how much they love you, because you know you don't deserve it.
~ Sara Zarr
Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I'd had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn't deserve that, not yet.
~ Sarah Dessen
You walk around like a dog waiting to be kicked. And when someone does, you pout and cry like you didn't deserve it. No one deserves to be kicked. You do if you don't think you're worth any better.
~ Sarah Dessen
To wisdom's final fruit, profoundly true: Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every cay must conquer them anew. Thus here, by danger girt, the active day Of childhood, manhood, age will pass away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To wisdom's final fruit, profoundly true: Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. Thus here, by danger girt, the active day Of childhood, manhood, age will pass away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wir haben nicht verschuldet, unglücklich zu werden; aber auch nicht verdient, zusammen glücklich zu sein.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.
~ John Calvin
Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.
~ Mena Suvari