Well Deserving Quotes

#1. I'm engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton's A Veritable Smorgasbord is a well-deserving classic, it's a stanza too short for my morphing existence. So I write my own.

Chila Woychik

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

Roger Chamberlain

#3. The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

Jonathan Grayer

#4. To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Plautus

#5. When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

Kevin DeYoung

#6. Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

James Fadiman

#7. This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways.

Kamasi Washington

#8. Love will kill us all." He said sadly. "First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what me must in order to appear deserving. Then, it tears us apart with raw truth. Whether we are man, exile or angel - It doesn't matter. For us all, the nature of truth is unforgiving.

Jessica Shirvington

#9. The belief that success was something that just happened to you, that you just did your thing, and if you were deserving, it was bestowed by the same invisible hand that ensured that the deli would have milk to drink and sandwiches to buy.

Adelle Waldman

#10. Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. That for which, you are deserving; will come before you effortlessly. Your purity is required. What is required for your purity? [The intent of] 'May no living being in this world be hurt by me'. If anyone hurts you, it happens as per the law [nature's law].

Dada Bhagwan

#12. Simple question,' Uncle Todd repeated. 'Do you deserve respect?'
'Yeah,' Dylan answered.
'Well, you're never deserving of any more respect in life than you give. I don't see you showing the world much respect. Until you show the world respect, the world won't respect you, and neither will I.

Ben Mikaelsen

#13. Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.

Chris Wooding

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

William Shakespeare

#15. Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

Kevin DeYoung

#16. Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. On valentine's day every girl should deserve a rose rather than one

PureDragonWolf

#18. These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

Marilynne Robinson

#19. if only people who were whole were deserving of love.

Brittainy C. Cherry

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

Joe Peterson

#21. But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished - behold! - all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile - and the return to an eternal rest.

Joseph Conrad

#22. Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

Charles Bukowski

#23. 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

#24. The unfortunate reality is that what holds most people back is actually their own beliefs that they are not good enough or deserving enough to be successful.

Jay Samit

#25. 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

#26. Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Lady Gregory

#27. In your search for a rich or wealthy man to complete you, standup to the challenges of deserving a right man, and what you will have in the end is a well-rounded partner.

Darmie Orem

#28. For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

Margaret Atwood

#29. 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

#30. I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Nikki Giovanni

#31. 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

#32. A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

Elizabeth Goudge

#33. 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

#34. He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.

Tullian Tchividjian

#35. If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Nikola Tesla

#36. You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other person on earth.

Hal Elrod

#37. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton

#38. Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.

Bill Bryson

#39. For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

Sydney Pollack

#40. In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That

Winston Graham

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Thank you for giving me another chance."
"Thank you for deserving one.

Kiersten White

#44. This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

Ansel Adams

#45. Standing there in her robe, that ridiculous robe, with the socks and slippers bulging from the pockets, Jonas saw a glint, the sparkle of a buried gem, in Tenley. He saw a woman worthy of love. Deserving of a man who would give her himself.

Rachel Hauck

#46. Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

Thomas Otway

#47. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

Rob Liano

#48. Things happen for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for us as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before, our guilt or our deserving, rather than coming to us from a future that God in his freedom offers to us.

Marilynne Robinson

#49. I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.

Desmond Tutu

#50. You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.

Madam C. J. Walker

#51. When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.

Jan Spiller

#52. The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Warren Buffett

#53. I've always thought of joggers as being sort of like Blind Michael and his crew: deserving of respect, but slightly psychotic. Who in their right minds would want to get out of bed and run around in their underwear before noon?

Seanan McGuire

#54. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

Danielle Steel

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#56. I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,

James D. Sass

#57. He asked himself ... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

Victor Hugo

#58. Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#59. I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing ... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

Nick McDonell

#60. Whenever did love have anything to do with deserving?

Ann Herendeen