Quotes about Entitlement

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves."1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift.

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather.

Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.

The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.