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  • Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined. -- Robin Hobb
  • Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. -- Alexander Pope
  • I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention. -- Cameron Russell
  • I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets. -- Graham Chapman
  • Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved. -- Peter Agre
  • Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved. -- Megan Ellison
  • Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. -- William Hazlitt
  • Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up. -- Mo Ibrahim
  • At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. -- Gabriela Mistral
  • Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. -- Rudolf Arnheim
  • You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved. -- Isabel Gillies
  • In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. -- Boris Pasternak
  • God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely. -- Joyce Meyer
  • Better mistrust undeserved than rash words. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. -- William Shakespeare
  • There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby. -- Charlene Weir
  • Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind. -- Matthew Henry
  • There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create. -- Abigail Van Buren
  • If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism. -- Mardy Grothe
  • We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us. -- David Jeremiah
  • The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved. -- Steven Conrad
  • Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? -- Horace
  • I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity. -- Bill Gates
  • I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. -- Ayn Rand
  • God gave man an undeserved ability to do what He had planned for him to do. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • God gave man an undeserved ability to do what He had planned for him to do -- Sunday Adelaja
  • Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation. -- Roger Chamberlain
  • Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services. -- Heraclitus
  • Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us. -- Philip Yancey
  • A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. -- John Galt
  • If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved. -- R. C. Sproul
  • By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate. -- Emily Bronte
  • On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. -- John Calvin
  • Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor. -- Dwight L. Moody
  • The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. -- Marvin J. Ashton
  • It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again. -- Mary Deasy
  • We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction. -- Janet Macunovich
  • To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end. -- Primo Levi
  • Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite. -- Henry Allen Ironside
  • By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved. -- Mark Twain
  • I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. -- William Cowper
  • The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers. -- Paul Samuelson
  • Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength. -- Claude Monet
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  • There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating. -- Jenny Diski
  • She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort. -- Alice Munro
  • Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color. -- Francis Chan
  • Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. -- Rick Warren
  • The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
  • Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will. -- Charles Martin
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