George Washington Quotes

Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Throw em a bone and they want a steak.

What the hell, I paid my dues.

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.

Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We've spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been?

I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

I think I deserve an apology.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.