Top 295 Deserving Quotes & Sayings

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

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.

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

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

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.

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

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

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

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

I try not to make personal attacks on people - unless they're deserving.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

I think there's no one out there more deserving of a title shot than me.

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

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.

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

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

Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.

Ronnie Barker was a man whom I thought more deserving of a knighthood than me.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

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

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

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.

Why not you? Why not you to do something for work that you love? Why not you to have a healthy body? Why not you to have healthy love? Why not you to be, have or do anything you have ever dreamed? We are so quick to think others are deserving over ourselves. The truth is that we are all deserving. So why not YOU?

We are all deserving of love.

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

If my performance down the stretch lands me on the All-NBA, which I think I'm deserving of, then so be it. I'll be happy.

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

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

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

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

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

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

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.