Quotes about Deserving

Hunter S. Thompson

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

Charlie Munger

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Tom Cruise

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

John Adams

We cannot guarantee success [in the war], but we can deserve it.

Adams is quoting from Cato, a play by Joseph Addison.

Ursula K. Le Guin

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

William Feather

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Kathie Lee Gifford

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Charles Barkley

If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.

Sylvia Plath

I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.

Charlie Munger

I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want.
It’s such a simple idea, it’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Bruce Arians

I wasn't happier for anyone more than Vic Fangio. He deserved to be a head coach, in my opinion. I was really pulling for him and pushing him whenever I got a chance.

Ryan North

I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it!

Saint Augustine

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Lou Holtz

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Alvin Leung

When I first got two stars, I didn't think I deserved it. Now I have three I think I am worthy.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Man, he deserves a hero cookie. (Selena)

Hillary Clinton

To all the little girls watching, never forget you are valuable, powerful and deserving of every opportunity in the world.

This quotation was retweeted 600,000 times in the immediate aftermath of the speech. In 2016 it was retweeted more than any other political quotation.