Deserved Quotes
298 quotes by 252 authors
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Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the…
— Antonio Tarver
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In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable…
— Solomon Schechter
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But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had…
— Chris Kyle
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
— Erich Fromm
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
— Baltasar Gracian
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The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
— Stanislav Grof
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I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
— Pierre Corneille
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
— William Feather
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There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you…
— Tom Hanks
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
— William Hazlitt
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
— Victor Hugo
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
— Samuel Johnson
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What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what…
— Clare Boothe Luce
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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably…
— Russell Lynes
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
— John Malkovich
Who Wrote These Deserved Quotes
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