Deserving Quotes

196 quotes by 167 authors

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be… — Gerald R. Ford
Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best… — Will Rogers
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how… — Kamasi Washington
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7,… — Missy Elliot
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
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
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time… — Elfriede Jelinek
I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that… — Ashton Kutcher
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are… — Maxwell Maltz
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of… — John Stuart Mill
Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention… — Joyce Carol Oates
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families… — Gloria Steinem
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… — Ida B. Wells
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike… — James Wolcott
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reasonâ€¦Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. Youâ€™re… — J D Salinger
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… — Richard Bach

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