DESERVING

Related Subjects: Honesty, Merit, Worth

1. It is better to deserve without receiving, than to receive without deserving.—ROBERT INGERSOLL, The Children of the Stage
   

2. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

3. O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it
   To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
   When it deserves, with characters of brass,
   A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time,
   And razure of oblivion.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
   

4. All may be well; but, if God sort it so,
   'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
   

5. There is nothing an honest man should fear more timorously than getting and spending more than he deserves.—STEVENSON, Morality of the Profession of Letters