deserving quotes

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

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 deserve respect for the things I did not do.

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 of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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

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.