Top 44 Deserving Quotes

I’m all for diversity – but diversity for deserving people.

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.

I certainly don’t think I’m deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There’s a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don’t want to take up space. They’re going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.

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.

‘Silicon Valley’ is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won’t pawn it.

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Just like any other job, you want a raise you’ve got to put in the work and you’ve got to show that you’re deserving and what you bring to the table and all kinds of other stuff to show that you’re worthy of so and so pay scale.

My family is happy in Manchester, so I just try to give everything and put all my strength and effort to keep deserving to play for this club.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor’s-new-clothes sort of way. I think that’s not right and that it’s just because they don’t understand the discourse.

I’m terrified of getting what I’m not deserving of, feeling that I’ve got something for nothing… at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

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.

Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.

I think there’s no one out there more deserving of a title shot than me.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor’s-new-clothes sort of way. I think that’s not right and that it’s just because they don’t understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

My intention now, more than anything, is to promote kids and deserving musicians. Because the time I’ve seen, I want them to see a better one.

I’m not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

Well, there’s no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

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

We are all deserving of love.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals – not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

That’s an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else’s. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn’t make me any more deserving than anybody else – or less.

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same ‘Love Boat’ voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.

I’m not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I’ve had a lot of ups and downs, and I don’t feel deserving a lot of times.

To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It’s still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn’t win.

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.

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.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face – for me that would be deserving of an award.

How do you hold on to the idea that you are good and kind and deserving of love when the whole world thinks you’re evil? It’s really disorienting to see this character with your face and your name and your details catch internet wildfire. It really bothered me.

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

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.

Ronnie Barker was a man whom I thought more deserving of a knighthood than me.

Military caregivers play an essential role in the recovery process of our veterans and are more than deserving of our support.

Many ask me why I work with debutants, but I always tell them that there’s space for every one in the industry, and if my music helps him, then I’m glad to be of some help. I will never say no to deserving newcomers.

There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets’ Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

I’ve shown I am deserving to be in the England squad, but I don’t just want a place in the squad; I want to be in the team.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

India has no shortage of deserving causes or good leaders; there is only short supply of activists and people who are willing to support their causes.

I’m thrilled to be part of Channel 4’s Black to Front – which quite rightly gives a platform to deserving Black British TV talent across our industry, both on and off-screen.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.