153 Quotes About Entitlement

At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.

Casiopea rested both hands on the chest and for a moment considered leaving well enough alone. But she was angry, and more than that, curious. What if indeed there was money locked away in there? The old man owed her something for her suffering.Everyone owed her. Casiopea inserted the key and turned the lock, and flipped the lid open.

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Helping others is often fulfilling. However, even when you give from the heart, lack of gratitude can make you wish you hadn't. If you don't appreciate those who answer when you call that sense of entitlement will leave you disconnected when you need them most.

Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.

Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

To cultivate gratitude, we must first uproot the weeds of pride, entitlement, and comparison that choke out our blessings.

Major turnoff… When someone’s sense of entitlement is greatly disproportionate to their sense of gratitude.

If I’m living without being thankful, I’m not living. It may be that I’m not even existing. In fact, it may be that all I’m doing is waiting for death to show up without even realizing it. Therefore, I’d welcome anything that would drive me to being thankful for it is that which would drive me to living.