Top 100 We Deserve Quotes
#2. We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.
Brewster Kahle
#3. God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.
Joyce Meyer
#4. We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.
Cassandra Clare
#5. Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.
Ellen Page
#6. We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.
Steven Redhead
#7. At times we must forgive others even when they don't deserve it. We forgive them because we deserve it. Free yourself.
DeWayne Owens
#8. Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Edward Albee
#10. I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
Alicia Keys
#11. This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#12. Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Sophie Swetchine
#13. The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz
#14. We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.
Bill Vaughan
#15. Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.
Cesar Aira
#17. The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.
Ali Vincent
#19. I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve.
Zoe Koplowitz
#20. We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.
Kate Jacobs
#21. Gifts are free. If you work for a gift, it is no longer a gift. Gifts in the truest sense are undeserved. If we feel we deserve it, then it ceases to be a gift and becomes an award. The eternal life God gives us is truly a gift because we don't deserve it in any way.
John R. Cross
#22. Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.
Jessica Hopper
#23. Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?
Helen Prejean
#24. We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve.
Debasish Mridha
#25. We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
Nick Mancuso
#26. We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this tortuously sunny, idiotically cheerful doppelganger of a world that we deserve in which life is swell.
Lionel Shriver
#27. The thanes nodded and patted each other on the back as if to say, Yes, wow! We really are wise and open-minded! We deserve cookies!
Rick Riordan
#28. We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.
Lynn Schusterman
#30. Forgiveness is given to us from God not because we deserve it. Forgiveness is given to us by the grace of God.(Paraphrased message from the Bible.)
Dortha Jackson
#31. Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
John Lennon
#32. I sat forward and picked up a piece of the jet engine. I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#33. Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
Ann Curry
#34. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.
Shirley Maclaine
#35. We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
Timothy Keller
#36. The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#37. To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Thomas Merton
#38. When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.
Charles Spurgeon
#39. In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.
E. Lockhart
#40. It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
Joseph Joubert
#41. Someone once told me that you know you've found the right one when both people feel like they don't deserve each other." She closed her eyes, then leaned back and looked at me.
"Let's love each other because we can't help it, not because we deserve it.
Marilyn Grey
#42. A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
Tullian Tchividjian
#43. If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
Marianne Williamson
#45. Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
David Platt
#46. Whether we deserve this or not, whether these turn out to be the darkest days of our lives or the brightest happiness, we've been guided by love. How can we go wrong when we're guided by love, Olivia.
Morgan Parker
#47. Bad things happen for something, good things happen because we deserve them
Felipe
#48. I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.
Greg Bear
#49. I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. Benson
#50. I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
Toni Morrison
#51. If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
Ben Carson
#52. Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!
Alistair Begg
#53. God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.
Robert Jeffress
#54. There aren't many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It's our fault as voters. We don't demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve - on both sides of the aisle.
Brad Thor
#55. There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.
Kate Jacobs
#56. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut
#57. We deserve each other, Luis ... and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me."
He steps closer, but hesitates.
"If I do, mi chava, I can't promise I'll be able to let you go.
Simone Elkeles
#58. The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve
that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us what we don't deserve
we call that grace.
Andy Stanley
#59. I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive - nor will we deserve to.
Leonard Peltier
#60. If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the Page sisters and we're librarians.
Bill Willingham
#61. We deserve what we earn. Anything more than that is wrong.
Barry Deutsch
#62. The opposite of envy and entitlement is gratitude. Gratitude comes from the feeling of freely receiving things, not because we deserve them, but because someone has graced us with them. We feel a thankfulness grounded in love,
Henry Cloud
#63. Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
Alice Paul
#65. We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.
George Carlin
#66. We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.
Phil Taylor
#67. Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.
Hillary Clinton
#68. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Barbara Sher
#70. Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.
Ernie J Zelinski
#71. This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life's blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing
Kelseyleigh Reber
#72. Why do we always get the Evan we deserve instead of the Evan we want?
Rick Yancey
#74. The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
R.C. Sproul
#75. The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?
Bryan Stevenson
#76. It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
Jodi Picoult
#77. We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.
John F. Kerry
#78. We generally get the juries we deserve.
Harper Lee
#79. Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
Mitt Romney
#80. Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.
Glenn L. Pace
#81. Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?
Edith Pargeter
#82. We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
Robert Kennedy
#83. The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time ...
Paul Cain
#84. For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious
or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.
Naomi Wolf
#85. There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#86. Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.
John Frederick Boyes
#87. If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.
Lon Milo DuQuette
#88. Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.
Victoria Moran
#89. Mercy is God's favour that holds back from us what we deserve. Grace is God's favour that gives us what we do not deserve.
Rolfe Barnard
#90. Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.
Robin Sharma
#91. Catie Conrad, just because we think we deserve something, it doesn't mean God is going to allow it to happen in the snap of a finger.
Angie Spady
#92. The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.
Steven Gerrard
#93. Brothers always. Balthazar is with us too. We make this work,' Finnikin said fiercely. 'We bring peace to these kingdoms. We deserve it. Our women do. All of us have lost too much, Froi. We've lost the joy of being children. Let's not take that from Jasmina and Tariq and those who come after them
Melina Marchetta
#94. Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
Tamora Pierce
#95. God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
Jerry Falwell
#96. I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Maya Angelou
#97. We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.
Thomas Sowell
#98. I think God's blessing might have everything to do with Him and His riches, and nothing to do with whether we deserve it.
Susan May Warren
#99. Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.
Shakti Gawain
#100. We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.
Joanna Newsom
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