Quotes About Deserving

And he feels grateful that he has been left with this one substantial relic of all his years of service and thinks how sincerely he has deserved this. Yet he knows the world in which people deserve things or do not deserve them is passing away. Europe is at war. Fairness is now becoming a word without meaning.

He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.

It's easy to rob a greedy man, because he deserves to be robbed; it's easy to rob a rich man, because he can afford to be robbed; but it's difficult to rob a poor man, even one who really doesn't care if he's robbed

sympathize with a man whom God has punished for his sins, thus to help him when God would still continue a just punishment, is to do wrong, no doubt about it, and we do that more than we help those who are deserving

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or deserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. Mary

After all you've been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

Because still, in spite of everything, I have not enough faith in God. He has given me so much - which I certainly do not deserve - and I still do so much that is wrong every day.

Life is way wilder than I am comfortable with, way farther out, as we used to say, more magnificent, more deserving of awe and, I would add, more benevolent—well-meaning, kindly.

i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.

It was so simple to smile at him; he deserved one's tenderest smile.

Average feels safe, but it's not. It's invisible. It's the last choice—the path of least resistance. The temptation to be average is just another kind of quitting…the kind to be avoided. You deserve better than average.

You could search the whole world over and never find anyone as deserving of your love as yourself.

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor.

You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)

He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you've shown me. (Acheron)

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.