#deserved

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. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#deserved #destiny #fame #inevitable #only

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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

— Norman Jewison

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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

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

— Tacitus

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

— Thomas Brooks

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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

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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. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

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