Deserved Quotes

298 quotes by 252 authors

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. — Phyllis McGinley
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. — Sidney Poitier
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. — Will Self
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. — Tacitus
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. — Tacitus
You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone. — Tim Tebow
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. — Barry White
After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of… — James Wolcott
I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and… — Tiger Woods
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me… — Steve Yzerman
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. — C.S. Lewis
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not… — Ayn Rand
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen
As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and… — Robinson Jeffers
Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea.… — Pat Conroy
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was… — Ann Brashares
It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I… — Owen Wister
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul. — Joyce Carol Oates
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,'… — Ray Bradbury
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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