Glenn Beck Quotes

We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.

If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

I don't believe that competitions are important.

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

If you deserve it, go get it.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.

I wouldn't join Miss Universe if I thought somebody else deserved it more than I do.

I'm not a mom that's going to tell my kids everybody wins.

To join a great club is nice and all, but you have to play the games.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.