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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
— Plautus
We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving ...
— P.D. James
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
— Ida B. Wells
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
We are all deserving of love.
— Sandra Bullock
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
— William Hazlitt
When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.
— Paul David Tripp
I feel like I am more deserving than last year. It definitely feels good just to be on the team.
— Andrew McCutchen
I hate them," Sebarial said. "But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving.
— Brandon Sanderson
Whenever did love have anything to do with deserving?
— Ann Herendeen
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
We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.
— Mo Willems
I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.
— Gannicus
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.
— Bryant McGill
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
Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless.
— Victor Hugo
I love you not because you are deserving of my love but because it is my number one duty as a Christian.There is no Christianity without true love!
— Bien Sufficient
Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
— Pliny The Elder
No one deserves mercy. Not deserving it is what makes it mercy.
— Sylvain Reynard
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses it
And who keeps it from the deserving does wrong. — Idries Shah
And who keeps it from the deserving does wrong. — Idries Shah
Fate is an obligation I don't understand
the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine. — Andrew X. Pham
the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine. — Andrew X. Pham
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
— Thomas Hardy
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
— Ansel Adams
I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.
— Sherwood Anderson
The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.
— R.T. Kendall
For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.
— Margaret Atwood
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
— David Simon
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
— Norm MacDonald
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
— Aldous Huxley
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
— Ellen Glasgow
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
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
— John Quincy Adams
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
Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
— George Washington
Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving
— Paul David Tripp
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
— Dorothy Day
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.
— Haruki Murakami
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
— William Shakespeare
A real leader doesn't choose to lead only the deserving. He will, instead, inspire his people into becoming the best that they are capable of.
— Amish Tripathi
I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,
— James D. Sass
When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment
— Augustine Of Hippo
I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.
— Gillian Flynn
There's a fine line between deserving and just desserts.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Stories that are good is deserving for a higher ranking
— William Shakespeare
Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
— Rick Pitino
Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.
— John Petrucci
All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.
— William Tyndale
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
— William Hazlitt
I am a human being just as deserving of love and happiness as the next person. I tell myself this every day.
— Kelley York
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.
— Joe Peterson
If there was any idea that God had set us a sort of exam, and that we might get good marks by deserving them, that has to be wiped out.
— C.S. Lewis
No one "deserves" success; it is either earned with hard work or lost to the hands of fate.
— Sanhita Baruah
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.
— Orson Scott Card
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
Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?
— Kevin DeYoung
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
On valentine's day every girl should deserve a rose rather than one
— PureDragonWolf
You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.
— David Levithan
Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.
— Shaolin
Birch trees
Teach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life — Muriel Barbery
Teach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life — Muriel Barbery
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
— Jonathan Tucker
We always get help we ask for.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
— Jodi Picoult
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
— B. B. Warfield
A life can be blessed without your ever deserving it. You can be loved by people just because they choose to love you.
— Lisa Wingate
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written.
— David Alejandro Fearnhead
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.
— Walter J. Phillips
True, he was tremendously boring, which really got on her nerves, but that was not a crime deserving of death. Probably.
— Haruki Murakami
A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes.
— Pawan Mishra
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
Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.
— George Henry Borrow
We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
— Sara Maitland
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
— Hermann Hesse
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
— Baltasar Gracian
Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.
— Bill Richardson
There is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
— Marilynne Robinson
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others
— Sunday Adelaja
if only people who were whole were deserving of love.
— Brittainy C. Cherry
True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving.
False friends demand you prove that worth. — Richelle E. Goodrich
False friends demand you prove that worth. — Richelle E. Goodrich