Deserve Quotes

“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

“You’ve got a lot of responsibility now,” Jace said to Julian. “You’ll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her.”
Julian was strangely white-faced. Maybe he was feeling the effects of the ceremony, Emma thought. It had been strong magic; she still felt it sizzling through her blood like champagne bubbles. But Jules looked as if he’d been slapped.
“What about me?” Emma said, quickly. “Don’t I have to make sure Jules winds up with someone who deserves him?”
“Absolutely. I did it for Alec, Alec did it for me — well, actually, he hated Clary at first, but he came around.”
“I BET you didn’t like Magnus much, either,” said Julian, still with the same odd, stiff look on his face.
“Maybe not,” said Jace, “but I never would have said so.”
“Because it would have hurt Alec’s feelings?” Emma asked.
“No,” said Jace, “because Magnus would have turned me into a hat rack.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.”
― Turcois Ominek

“You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.”
― Jamie Weise

“We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“It sounded old. Deserve. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn't deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment from others. He'd told Guitar that he didn't "deserve" his family's dependence, hatred, or whatever. That he didn't even "deserve" to hear all the misery and mutual accusations his parents unloaded on him. Nor did he "deserve" Hagar's vengeance. But why shouldn't his parents tell him their personal problems? If not him, then who? And if a stranger could try to kill him, surely Hagar, who knew him and whom he'd thrown away like a wad of chewing gum after the flavor was gone––she had a right to try to kill him too.

Apparently he though he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be...what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“That’s the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you’re not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don’t deserve it.”
― Sara Quin

“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved.”
― Emily Thorne

“Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.”
― Debasish Mridha

“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.”
― James R. Ball

“If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,
it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“You don't deserve to understand truth
if all that you want is just the normal life.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“And now, for something completely the same:

Wasted time and wasted breath,
's what I'll make, until my death.
Helping people 'd be as good,
but I wouldn't, if I could.

For the few that help deserve,
have no need, or not the nerve,
help from strangers to accept,
plus from mine a few have wept.

Wept from joy, or from despair,
or just from my vengeful stare.
Ways I have, to look at stupid,
make them see I am not Cupid.

Make them see they are in error,
for of truth I am a bearer.
Most decide I'm just a bear,
mauling at them, - like I care.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“If you can’t Respect her, you don’t Deserve Her!”
― Udayveer Singh

“Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't deserve or you aren't worthy. You do. You are.”
― Lesley Livingston, Starling

“If you are a woman, reading my tale, learn to fight for your rights and the respect you deserve as a human being. But, if you are a man, reading my tale, learn to respect women and, likewise, advocate for them.”
― Yanan Melo, Aggressing the Predatory Lions

“having patience always gives you what you deserve.”
― Fatma Alfalasi

“Catie Conrad, just because we think we deserve something, it doesn't mean God is going to allow it to happen in the snap of a finger.”
― Angie Spady, Catie Conrad: Faith, Friendship and Fashion Disasters

“What a freeing thought it was to no longer believe I had to deserve something in order to get it.'

He's right; that would be a shockingly freeing thought.

'Stop waiting,' Madoc says. 'Sink those pretty teeth into something.'

I give him a sharp look, trying to decide if he is making fun of me. I lean down and write in the dirt and the crust of my own dried blood. Monsters have teeth like mine.

He grins as though I am finally getting his point. 'That they do.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Givers need to realise that they deserve to be blessed by others as well. That in this life, as they give, they also need to be given. Whether it is love, money, or time.”
― ThandazoPerfectKhumalo

“I want you to know ... you are my slut. I need you to know that you deserve every moment of giving yourself to me.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

“Lots of people deserve to die,' said the dust-wife finally. 'Not everybody deserves to be a killer.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“If you cannot pry from the mind of others, do you really deserve a mind of your own?”
― Florin-Marian Hera, Ten Loud Rocks