Deserving Quotes - Page 7

• The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nice

  MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

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• 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.

  Ada Leverson

  Envy, Merit, Recognition

  Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

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• You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Success, People, Kind

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• I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
  receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Daughter, Regret, Thinking

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Needs, Littles, Reminders

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Criticism, Would Be

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• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Sex, Women

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

  Statius

  Fortune

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• The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Home, Government

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.26

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• 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.

  Megan Fox

  Names, People, Millions

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

  Norm MacDonald

  Conditions, Misfortunes

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• The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Country, Marine, Men

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Depressing, Mediocrity, Way

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• I'm in favor of outing when people have demonized or scapegoated gay people for their own public gain. When they have risen to public prominence on the backs of the gay community that they are part of and they prey on, I think that's absolutely deserving of outing.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2009.

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• Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

  Aristotle

  Opposites, Justice, Decision

  Aristotle (1890). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric, Literally Tr. with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions and an Appendix Containing the Greek Definitions: Also, The Poetic of Aristotle, Literally Tr., with a Selection of Notes, an Analysis, and Questions”

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• 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.

  William Penn

  Men, Vanity, Rooms

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.855

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• You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Wish, World

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Criticism, Receiving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• I'm pleased we are going to be able to offer job opportunities to so many deserving young people. When we provide youth of all abilities and backgrounds with the experience and skills they need to succeed, we build a brighter future for young people and a stronger Ontario economy.

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Opportunity, Skills

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

  Joe Peterson

  Fate, Acceptance, Predictions

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• It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Justice, Charity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

  Vanna Bonta

  Discovery, Insanity, Survival

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• If employees feel you don't trust them to do their jobs correctly and well, they'll be reluctant to do much without your approval. On the other hand, when they feel trusted, that you believe they'll do the right things well, they'll naturally want to do things well and be deserving of your trust.

  Mac Anderson

  Jobs, Believe, Hands

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• 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.

  Daniel Dennett

  Views, Roles, Needs

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

  John Piper

  Valentines Day, Son, Loss

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