Quotes about Entitlement

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ...You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

Have you any right

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

Envy is self-focused; because it's self-focused, it's entitled; because it's entitled, it's demanding; because it's demanding, it tends to judge the goodness of God by whether he has delivered what you feel entitled to; and because it judges God on that basis, it leads you to question his goodness. Because you question God's goodness, you won't run to him for help. Envy is a spiritual disaster.

Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.

When you forget mercy and think you're deserving, you find it all too easy not to extend mercy to others.

Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that we deserve what another has been given, when, in fact, you and I deserve nothing.