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Deserving It 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.

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

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

Elfriede Jelinek
Awards, Deserving It, Expression
Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

George Washington
Deserving It, Evil, Gossip
George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.76

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

Lillian Hellman
Sorry, Hard Work, Deserving It

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Gloria Steinem
Food, Deserving It, Feminist
Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.855, Open Road Media

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

William Hazlitt
Success, Deserving It, Achievement
William Hazlitt (1857). “The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt”, p.223

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

Ivan Panin
Deserving It, Praise, Deserve

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”

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

John Milton
Deserving It, Missing, Age

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)

John Steinbeck
Dark, Past, Deserving It
John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.143, Penguin

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.

Charles Caleb Colton
Greatness, Deserving It, Mind
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.15

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