Deserving Quotes

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

I feel like I am more deserving than last year. It definitely feels good just to be on the team.

Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

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.

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.

Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.

When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.