Entitlement Quotes
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.
Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood.
In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.
Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.
We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.
The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.
There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.
Obviously the first thing we need to do is repeal “Obamacare.” That's one entitlement that we can get rid of. And that's a couple trillion dollars in spending over the next 10 years.
Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.
...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.
When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.
Rights’ are ‘privileges, ’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.
It is easier to fall off the ladder once you on top, the balance is being aware of your environment.
Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice.
Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.
Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.
The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from employees of the parents to the bosses of the parents.
Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.
I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor."Can you just tell me what it says?" he says.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.
A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.
God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.
They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.