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Quotations about entitlement

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

 - Candice Bergen

Tags:   age  beauty  entitlement  

Thomas SowellThe idea that taxpayers owe it to you to pay for what you want suggests that much of today's education fails to instill reality, and instead panders to a self-centered sense of entitlement to what other people have earned.

 - Thomas Sowell

Tags:   entitlement  selfishness  taxation  

Thomas SowellThanksgiving may be our most old-fashioned holiday. Gratitude itself seems out of date at a time when so many people feel "entitled" to whatever they get -- and indignant that they didn't get more.

 - Thomas Sowell

Tags:   entitlement  gratitude  greed  holidays  

David GogginsIt won't always go your way, so you can't get trapped in this idea that just because you've imagined a possibility for yourself that you somehow deserve it. Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!

 - David Goggins

Tags:   arrogance  effort  entitlement