Best Entitlement Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“America has always been a land of freedom that teaches you that the sky is the limit that you will succeed or you will fail based upon your ability and your effort. And every phrase of the sentence that I just uttered has been smothered in a soft pillow of entitlement, victimhood and security.”

“The thing with this industry is, it's in your face, it's there. You are privy to whatever goes on, and somehow people have this sense of entitlement towards actors and filmmakers' life. It's like you don't have any privacy, your life is out there for people to see.”

“The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.”

“My parents gave me a strong sense of entitlement. And I use that in a very good way.”

“It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting.”

“We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.”

“I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.”

“It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.”

“Letting non-citizens vote jeopardizes our principles as a nation. They vote only for entitlement, not for their own responsibility as citizens.”

“What employing thousands of people in the middle of the country has taught me is how good and hard-working Americans in all cities are, and how much most of the country resents our wealthiest cities' sense of entitlement and condescension.”

“Paul Ryan has been a responsible legislator and public servant, almost alone among members of Congress in his belief that we need to strengthen and save our social entitlements.”

“Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.”

“We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.”

“I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.”

“Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.”

“With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.”

“We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.”

“Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.”

“I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.”

“Men feel they have a sense of power and entitlement over women.”

“People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.”

“People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.”

“Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.”

“No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.”

“The decision to marry is every woman's entitlement, irrespective of her age.”

“What my parents have given me is what I would call a healthy entitlement.”

“It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.”

“We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.”

“Millennials in particular get a lot of flack for their supposed entitlement and narcissism, but these evaluations have never matched my experience with hiring young people at Warby Parker.”

“And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.”

“I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.”

“We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all kind, including the military. We all know this. Lets get on with it.”

“The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.”

“My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.”

“Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.”

“Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.”

“Entitlement is lethal.”

“The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning.”

“Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior.”

“I'm totally vulnerable to all conditions of existence all the time, no matter where I go or how good I am. Really getting this deconditions me from illusion and entitlement. It’s a fast track to letting go of the ego. To say yes, to the conditions of existence liberates me. I face them directly rather than F.A.C.E them, with fear, attachment, control, and entitlement.”

“When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.”

“Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.”