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Quotes About Deserving

If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
~ Aristotle
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma. Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma
~ Swami Vivekananda
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
~ Sydney Harris
You have to believe you deserve what you want, that it's yours. That's the most important part of it all. If you don't believe you deserve it, if you wait for someone to hand what you want to you, then you'll be waiting your whole life for things to happen, and they won't.
~ Tawny Taylor
People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.
~ Ted Chiang
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
~ William Shakespeare
The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing
~ Mickey Cohen
Let each man have according to his deserts.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.
~ Paulo Coelho
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
~ Frederick Douglass
But when they had to form a particular judgment on the men of their own party, they recognized their defects, and decided that individually no one of them was deserving of what, collectively, they seemed entitled to; and being ashamed of them, turned to bestow their honours on those who deserved them. Of
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
And although one should not reason about Moses, as he was a mere executor of things that had been ordered for him by God, nonetheless he should be admired if only for that grace which made him deserving of speaking with God.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.
~ Nicholas Sparks
God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I became a music director because I never saw my father get the success he deserved.
~ Amaal Mallik
The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.
~ John Piper
Any player who is in a national team is their because he deserves to be.
~ Sandeep Singh
Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.
~ Chris Wooding
I knew the moment I saw your courage on that plane, Nicoletta. I knew you. What was inside you, and I knew I had to learn to be man enough to deserve to call you mine.
~ Christine Feehan
But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
~ Umberto Eco