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Quotes About Deserving

Doesn't settle for less than she deserves, or apologize unless it's absolutely necessary.
~ Tom Perrotta
Why should I still work with enthusiasm when someone has been promoted who doesn't really deserve it? In fact, I no longer love; I am unable to. But this inability to love is quite crucial because it leaves me with an enormous feeling of indifference. Whether I like it or not, love is the aim of my life, the reason for my existence, the only thing that really satisfies me.
~ Carlo Carretto
If you recognize that the person you love deserves your love, will your soul to suffer some." Carlo Goldoni – The Lovers
~ Carlo Goldoni
I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.
~ Carol Lee
I was a very lonley child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.
~ Carol Lee
In the previous chapter, we saw on a smaller scale how divorcing couples typically justify the hurt they inflict on each other. In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, because our victims deserved what they got, we hate them even more than we did before we harmed them, which in turn makes us inflict even more pain on them.
~ Carol Tavris
At the counter, a different waitress flirts with an aspiring writer who's probably been trying to fuck her and finish his screenplay for months. He asks for a side of guac and she tells him that it's two dollars extra. That's how it works here. The guy who deserves free guac doesn't get free guac.
~ Caroline Kepnes
I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behaviour. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee.
~ Carrie Fisher
A daughter." Brienne's eyes filled with tears. "He deserves that. A daughter who could sing to him and grace his hall and bear him grandsons. He deserves a son too, a strong and gallant son to bring honor to his name. Galladon drowned when I was four and he was eight, though, and Alysanne and Arianne died still in the cradle. I am the only child the gods let him keep. The freakish one, not fit to be a son or daughter.
~ George R.R. Martin
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
~ W. S. Gilbert
God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him.
~ Anonymous
It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.
~ Nadia Boulanger
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
~ Bible
Of whom the world was not worthy.
~ Hebrews
At the end of the day, people have to earn the right to be in your life
~ J.R. Ward
And that was kind of ugly to admit. Like cancer was a noble disease, but if your biochemistry had conspired with a drug to your mortal detriment then you were undeserving of sympathy, support, understanding.
~ J.R. Ward
He didn't want to get involved, but last night had put him at the front of the line for issues those two needed to work on. Besides, he had some fucked-up idea that if he did the right thing by his roommate, maybe he would deserve Anne a little more.
~ J.R. Ward
DEDICATED TO: YOU BOTH - AT THE RISK OF INAPPROPRIATE LEVITY,IT'S ABOUT TIME - AND NO ONE DESERVES IT MORE THAN THE TWO OF YOU.
~ J.R.Ward
I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.
~ Tara Westover
During the season, there are all types of games - ones where you deserve more than you get and ones where you get more than you deserve.
~ Ernesto Valverde
I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.
~ Rupert Grint
Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
~ William Shakespeare