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
Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
O men of Islam ! The time has come for steadfastness. Weakness and cowardice lead to disgrace; and he who is steadfast is more deserving of Allah's help. He who stands bravely before the blade of the sword will be honored, and his labors rewarded, when he goes before Allah. Lo ! Allah loves the steadfast.
al-Walid, Khalid ibn
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and theres not much deserving about the matter.
Orson Scott Card
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.
Joseph Addison
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
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Lady Gregory
The sentiment that modern day ordinary Canadians do not need firearms for protection is pleasant but unrealistic. To discourage responsible deserving Canadians from possessing firearms for lawful self-defence and other legitimate purposes is to risk sacrificing them at the altar of political correctness.
Don Demetrick
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.
George Henry Borrow
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise.
Latin Proverb
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise
Latin Proverb
I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willlingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stired it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
Muhammad Ali