Entitlement Quotes

“A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.”
― JSB Morse

“The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.

Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.”
― James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still

“He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king.”
― J. Matthew Nespoli

“They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence