Quotes About Deserving

Incidentally, charity for the "deserving" few costs a lot less than taxes to provide resources for the benefit of all.

I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

I've got a mortgage, and we've got three kids we work hard to take care of. I believe that we deserve a seat at the table, too, to represent the voices of everyday people.

You're not big enough, so you don't belong. Others are more deserving than you are.

nourishing and sustaining. He feels entitled to the best others can offer without

People often attain and hold power within an organization by downplaying their qualifications. "We gain status more readily, and more reliably, by acting just a little less deserving than we actually are.

The captains in Tier One were not poseurs. They didn't make speeches, didn't seek attention or acclaim, and were not comfortable wearing the cloak of power. Most of them took subservient roles and carried water for their teammates. In other words, they behaved precisely the way Gruenfeld describes. They won status by doing everything in their power to suggest they didn't deserve it.

Perhaps the year and a half spent trying to make sense of all this has finally drained me Maybe, just maybe, I always know I deserved better, but was too afraid to accept it

Endeavor to deserve her

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.

there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

Things happen for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for us as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before, our guilt or our deserving, rather than coming to us from a future that God in his freedom offers to us.

Things happen for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before, our guilt or our deserving, rather than coming to us from a future that God in his freedom offers to us.

People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other.

The truth is that everyone but the sinless Jesus merits the active wrath of God. None of us deserves love, grace, or mercy from God.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt. 

It is not easy for a generous person to grow rich, since he is ready to spend, not to take or keep, and honors wealth for the sake of giving, not for itself. Indeed, that is why fortune is denounced, because those who most deserve to grow rich actually do so least.

El que se deja llevar de la cólera en ocasiones dadas contra los que lo merezcan, haciéndolo además de la manera, en el momento, y durante todo el tiempo que convenga, debe merecer nuestra aprobación. Esta es, sépase bien, la verdadera mansedumbre, si la mansedumbre es digna de elogios.

Like they say: suffer with your own. You get the picture? But complete strangers? Must I bear the brunt of their troubles? Have I deserved a fate like that? What wrong have I done?