Deserve Quotes

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

The Lord has blessed me more than I deserve.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

Women don't get the credit they deserve.

We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.

I know that I do deserve good things.

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.'

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.

If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

Audiences deserve better.

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.