Deserved Quotes

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

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 it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

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 I smacked them with.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

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.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

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 dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

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 to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

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 have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.