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- A good dog deserves a good bone. ~ Traditional Proverb
- A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. ~ Barbara De Angelis
- Children need love, especially when they don’t deserve it. ~ Harold Hulbert
- Chins without beards deserve no honor. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~ Aristotle
- Earth belongs to the brave but heaven to those who deserve it. ~ Basque Proverb
- Edicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. ~ Mark Victor Hansen
- First deserve, and then desire. ~ English Proverb
- Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. ~ Jane Austen
- He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things. ~ Belgian Proverb
- He who gossips and he who listens to it deserve to be thrown to the dogs. ~ Hebrew Proverb
- I used to hurt so badly that I’d ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That’s the way I see it. ~ Janet Jackson
- If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. ~ A. A. Milne
- It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it. ~ Joseph Joubert
- It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one and not deserve it! ~ Mark Twain
- Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. ~ Joseph Joubert
- None but the brave deserve the fair. ~ John Dryden
- People deserve… the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it’s essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ~ Bruce Springsteen
- People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~ John Harrigan
- People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards. ~ Pat Riley
- Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. ~ Doris Lessing
- The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. ~ Moliere
- The person who asks for little deserves nothing. ~ Mexican Proverb
- Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness. ~ Johann G. Fichte
- Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved. ~ Indian Proverb
- We don’t always get what we deserve, but we often get what we ask for. ~ Victor C. Dymowski
- We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. ~ Doug Horton
- We won’t even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve. ~ Ruth Ross
- Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ~ James Thurber
- You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. ~ American Proverb
- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha
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- A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. ~ Steven Wright
- A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. ~ Adrian Edmondson
- A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time. ~ Mariah Carey
- A lot of people become saints because of their stomach. ~ Indian Proverb
- A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. ~ Les Brown
- A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion. ~ Martin Yan
- A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do. ~ Marilyn Manson
- A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one. ~ Chuck Norris
- A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been rather than where they are going. ~ Author Unknown
- A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Nolan Bushnell
- A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.~ Steve Prefontaine
- A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.~ Bill Walton
- There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat. ~ Lisa M. Amos
- God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message. ~ Edmund W Littlefield
- A lot of people have the ability, but they don’t put forth the effort. ~ Joe Carter
- If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. ~ Robert Townsend
- Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition. ~ Magic Johnson
- The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
- There’s nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren’t going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more. ~ Woody Hayes
- When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~ Bernard Baily
- You can’t ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. ~ Barbara De Angelis
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- An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. ~ William Ellery Channing
- Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ~ Andrew Marvell
- Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman. ~ Chinese Proverb
- I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
- I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve. ~ Dashiell Hammett
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. ~ C. S. Lewis
- If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. ~ Rabbi Ben Azai
- Lazy people have no spare time. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ~ Edward L. Bernays
- Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~ Samuel Pepys
- Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. ~ John Armstrong
- Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman
- Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. ~ Author Unknown
- Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
- Spare the rod and spoil the child. ~ Samuel Butler
- Spare us what we can learn to endure. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- The poor have no time to spare. ~ Japanese Proverb
- There’s time enough, but none to spare. ~ Charles W. Chesnutt
- Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ~ Josh Billings
- To bear other people’s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~ Marcel Proust
- Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. ~ Lucian
- Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.” ~ C. Northcote Parkinson
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- When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts…. A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~ Sophia Loren
- When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble. ~ Muhammad Ali
- When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
- When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ~ Lao-Tzu
- When you are crossing over a river you might be eaten by crocodiles, but don’t let yourself get bitten by the little fish. ~ Malawian Proverb
- When you are down and out something always turns up — and it is usually the noses of your friends. ~ Orson Welles
- When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. ~ Princess Diana
- When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were — to the very last minute — a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- When you are in difficulty, go to the house of your friend — not your sister’s. ~ Indian Proverb
- When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. ~ Denis Waitley
- When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire. ~ Whoopi Goldberg
- When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ~ Confucius
- When you are looking for a country with no tombstones you will find yourself in the land of cannibals. ~ Malagasy Proverb
- When you are looking upwards you see no frontiers. ~ Japanese Proverb
- When you are making a success of something, it’s not work. It’s a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world. ~ Andrew Granatelli
- When you are not passionate about your work, chances are you’re not as turned on about life as possible. ~ Marcia Wieder
- When you are polite, the others think they are wearing flowers. ~ Japanese Proverb
- When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised. ~ African Proverb
- When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets. ~ Irish Proverb
- When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
- When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious. ~ Arthur Rimbaud
- When you are sick you promise a goat, but when you are well again make do with a chicken. ~ Nigerian Proverb
- When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again. ~ Nikita S. Khrushchev
- When you are talking about marriage, think about your mother. ~ Spanish Proverb
- When you are thirsty, it’s too late to think of digging the well. ~ Japanese Proverb
- When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. ~ Richard A. Nelson
- When you are very angry, don’t go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don’t be a poet. ~ Chinese Proverb
- When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose. ~ Goran Ivanisevic
- When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few… if you are lucky. ~ Pablo Picasso
- When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ~ I. F. Stone
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- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis
- Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Saint Francis de Sales
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ~ Saint Augustine
- I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~ Javan
- If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~ Pope John Paul II
- If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ~ Greek Proverb
- If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. ~ Greek Proverb
- Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ~ Julius Caesar
- People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ~ Lucille Clifton
- People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ~ French Proverb
- The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.~ Ann Landers
- You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. ~ Robert Collier
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