Deserving Quotes

• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Deserving It, Matter

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• You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 27, 2011

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• It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Receiving, Deserve

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• When you're a good person, good things happen to you. You shouldn't be a good person with the expectation of therefore deserving good things, but in its purest form, I believe when you do good, good comes back to you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Believe, Expectations, Good Person

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect

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• The only thing you deserve is what you earn

  Tom Brands

  Motivational, Wrestling, Wwe

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• I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Louise Hay, Heather Dane (2016). “The Bone Broth Secret: A Culinary Adventure in Health, Beauty, and Longevity”, p.63, Hay House, Inc

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• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

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

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Attitude, Helping Others

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 29, 2017

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• Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Joy, Soul

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• It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Air, Praise, Live By

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• Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

  Pierre Berton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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• Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life

  Paulo Coelho

  Good Things, Feels, Happens

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• Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

  Jodi Picoult

  Karma, Fate, What You Deserve

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• We accept the love we think we deserve.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Deserving It, People

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

  Ivan Panin

  Deserving It, Praise, Deserve

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• Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Feel Good

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Life Is Like, Consequence

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

  B. B. Warfield

  Grace, Favors, Sovereign

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• The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

  Dorothy Day

  Forever, Poor, Undeserving

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• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

  Eugene Wigner

  Science, Law, Miracle

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media

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