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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers. — Tullian Tchividjian

No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound. — Ted Cruz

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. — Robert Evans

entitlement and chaos are a poor mix. — Pierce Brown

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. — Jonathan Franzen

I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor.
"Can you just tell me what it says?" he says. — Martha Grover

That if our legacy is not entitlement, it must be hope. Because — Jodi Picoult

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona. — T.F. Hodge

[ ... ] the sense of entitlement [ ... ] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world — Malcolm Gladwell

Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement. — Steve Maraboli

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. — James Earl Jones

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem. — George F. Will

I'll just follow your bread crumb trail of ego and entitlement, — Nicole Williams

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude. — Pete Wilson

The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The combination of fear of disappointment, entitlement, and performance pressure is a recipe for hopelessness and self-doubt. — Brene Brown

The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

When you find yourself internally, you find what nourishes you from within. You lose that entitlement and anger when YOU deliver. — Tony Curl

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated — Brad Stevens

Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy. — C. JoyBell C.

Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships. — Jay Bilas

Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. — Anita Sarkeesian

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program. — Susan RoAne

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J.J. Abrams

The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful. — Alessandra Torre

You don't build a family by tearing down another one. — Donna Lynn Hope

When entitlement's poison begins to infect our hearts, gratitude is the antidote. — Kristen Welch

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. — Sarah Churchwell

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music. — Joshua Homme

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility. — Angeles Arrien

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little. — Criss Jami

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement. — Jeanne Phillips

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it. — Steve Maraboli

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it. — Jon Kyl

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Abraham Lincoln

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune. — Neil Strauss

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us. — Randy Hultgren

The only entitlement guaranteed should be the fruits of one's own labor. — Michael Palmer

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something. — Curtis Jackson

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. — Lee Siegel

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me. — Anchee Min

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it. — Donna Lynn Hope

There's a whole generation growing up thinking ... the government exists to care for them. — Dave Ramsey

We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America. — Mitch McConnell

You seem a little challenged in the entitlement department. I mean, compared to the others. — Jonathan Franzen

And like most of her peers, Barbara Ann has a French postal worker's sense of divine entitlement when it comes to her hours. — Rob Reid

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. — Abraham Lincoln

The antidote to entitlement is forgiveness in two directions. — Henry Cloud

God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality. — Randy Alcorn

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie

Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we've engaged in 'right' living, verses believing that living is a 'right. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'! — Pedro Okoro

What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement — Robert Harris

Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned — Howard Schultz

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. — Mother Teresa

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill. — Mike Pence

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty. — J.S.B. Morse

Rewards are not an entitlement, they have to be deserved, they have to be earned. — Murad S. Shah

Entitlement is a foreign concept to me. — Vann Chow

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church. — Thom S. Rainer

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money? — John Stossel

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. — Philip Yancey

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. — Seamus Heaney

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends. — Steven Furtick

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback. — George Eliot

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance. — Marjorie Hillis

Grace destroys entitlement. — Justin Buzzard

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships. — Steve Maraboli

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches. — Randy Alcorn

It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) — Joyce Carol Oates

Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence? — Margaret Atwood

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way. — Howard Schultz

The divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums. — Steve Martin

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. — Richard Eyre

She never had to learn to live in a world that didn't necessarily want to go easy on her. — Jennifer DuBois

An abuser's psychological diagnosis isn't the problem. Their sense of entitlement is. — Caroline Abbott

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement. — Tan Le

In our families, we are finding that abandoning that sense of masculine entitlement actually enables us to live happier lives. — Michael S. Kimmel

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver. — Ken Follett

The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced. — Uday Kotak

The great cancer facing all of us during this 'new millennium' is entitlement. — George M. Gilbert

Entitlement and privelege corrupt. — James Stockdale

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy. — Annabel Park

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it. — Paul Gibbons

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. — Gloria Allred

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over. — Tite Kubo

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. — Brene Brown

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent. — George F. Will

Entitlement is not a friend of art. Work is. Pain is. — Michael Gungor

The sight of so many agitated and serious people made Margaret smile, but she reflected that they were paid to be serious, and enjoyed being agitated. — E. M. Forster

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes. — Maynard Webb

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. — Guy Kawasaki

Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it. — Kate Tempest

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope. — Craig D. Lounsbrough