Deserve Better Quotes

• Sometimes Allah withholds something from you, not because you don't deserve it, but because you deserve better!

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Sometimes, Deserve

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2013

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• The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, America, Effort

  "It's Worth Actually Reading Obama's 2006 Debt Ceiling Speech". www.slate.com. October 09, 2013.

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• I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Louise Hay, Heather Dane (2016). “The Bone Broth Secret: A Culinary Adventure in Health, Beauty, and Longevity”, p.63, Hay House, Inc

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• If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them.

  Bobby Williams

  Believe, Ifs, Deserve

  "Mariel Hemingway and Bobby Williams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

  Nick Mancuso

  People, World, Infinite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Audiences deserve better.

  Leonard Maltin

  Audience, Deserve

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• People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843".

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  Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Life, Cute

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

  Kiersten White

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama.

  Bindu

  Drama, Divorce, People

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

  Michael Moore

  Inspirational, Games, Islands

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• Ash, I want you. Bad, very very bad. But you deserve better than this

  Abbi Glines

  Ashes, Want, I Want You

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.34, Abbi Glines

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• If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better.

  Jon Corzine

  Country, People, Flu

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• People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

  Richard Stallman

  Government, People, Behavior

  "Sayings" at Richard Stallman's personal site, www.stallman.org. October 24, 2001.

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• The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

  Anderson Cooper

  People, Dignity, Deserve

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• I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Trying, Walks

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• Take a stand, America! You deserve better. Resolve to live life vibrantly by looking to family, faith, and freedom in this new year!

  Sarah Palin

  New Year, Live Life, Years

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• You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.

  Zach Braff

  One Day, Dump, Sat

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• A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Names, Doe

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• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, People, Groups

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Balance, Goddess

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

  Mickey Rooney

  Senior, Veterans Day, Elderly

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• I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay.

  Tammara Webber

  Want, Okay, Deserve

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