To the well-deserving. [ Motto ]
A just fortune awaits the deserving. [ Statius ]
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in deserving them. [ Aristotle ]
The sorrowfulest of fates is to have liberty without deserving it. [ John Ruskin ]
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. [ Lingrie ]
To a well-deserving man God will show favour, to an ill-deserving He will be simply just. [ Plaut ]
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise. [ From the Latin ]
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. [ Colton ]
He who receives his friends, and takes no personal care in preparing the meal that is designed for them, is not deserving of friends. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
I'll give thrice so much land. To any well deserving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. [ William Shakespeare ]
Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it,, or have it not equal to their deserts. [ Milton ]
There are three kinds of praise, - that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude. [ Colton ]
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]