Deserving Quotes - Page 7

• Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Would Be, Duration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Business, Successful

  8 Copy quote

• It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Advice

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.74

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.

  Jillian Michaels

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mom

  "Jillian Michaels' Secrets to the Strongest You Ever". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Suicide, Health, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.240

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We cannot say to one couple that their love is deserving of marriage and to another that their love should only be called a partnership. 'Separate but equal' is never equal. Children of same-sex couples should not grow up wondering why their family is treated differently from other families

  Christine Gregoire

  Sex, Children, Growing Up

  4 Copy quote

• Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Gratitude, Sacrifice

  4 Copy quote

• It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then what we seem to intuitively know to be true is entirely backwards. For if this is the case, then it must be the despicable tyrant, free of any moral values, and not the selfless compassionate who sacrifices himself for the good of mankind that is truly the one most deserving of our reverence and emulation.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Sacrifice, Tyrants

  4 Copy quote

• The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

  Jodi Rell

  Retirement, Vacation, Years

  8 Copy quote

• If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Men, Animal

  4 Copy quote

• Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  4 Copy quote

• Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Bird, Study, Awareness

  14 Copy quote

• So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.

  William Lane Craig

  Children, Thinking, House

  "Why I refuse to debate with William Lane Craig" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.

  Matisyahu

  Ideas, Needs, Beard

  17 Copy quote

• Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

  Laozi

  Envy, Taoism, Praise

  12 Copy quote

• I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Criticism, Receiving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Believe, Happy Life

  10 Copy quote

• The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Doors, Self

  9 Copy quote

• I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Secret, Criticism, Receiving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.184

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Success, People, Kind

  22 Copy quote

• The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.

  R. T. Kendall

  Moving, Personality, Spirit

  R. T. Kendall (2016). “The Anointing”, p.21, Charisma Media

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nice

  MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

  Ada Leverson

  Envy, Merit, Recognition

  Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

  Vanna Bonta

  Discovery, Insanity, Survival

  5 Copy quote

• To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

  Plautus

  Kindness, Favors, Ill

  10 Copy quote