Deservingness Quotes

We accept the love we think we deserve.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

We like to think that people have to work for their money.

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

Earn the right to be proud and confident.

I think good things come to good people.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

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.

I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

If you are good enough, you should play.

I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

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

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.