#deserving

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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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

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There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ↗

— Gene Kelly

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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. ↗

— David Simon

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He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn’t do it — nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving. ↗

— Hank Azaria

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ↗

— Aristotle

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