If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.
— Laverne Cox
Risky What You Deserve quotations
Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.
Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.
The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
Why bad things happen to good people
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.
You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? .
. . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.
You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.
You must love yourself before you love another.
By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.
I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt.
But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he expects of you, not what you might personally wish to do. If you overstep the mark, you will not deserve thanks, but blame from him and others and you will attract hostility, not friendship.
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
Decide what you want ... believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you.

You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos.
You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.
You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity.
But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)
I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea, it’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
Your actions reflect what you want for yourself and how much you love and value yourself. Your actions reflect how you see yourself, what you feel you deserve.

If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
Nobody knows what you want except you.
And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!
You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
We only get what we believe that we deserve.
Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome.
Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging.
Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.