Entitlement Mentality Quotes

• If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

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  Randy Alcorn

  Jobs   Done   Benefits  

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.28, Multnomah

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• The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

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  Mona Charen

  Character   Self   Entitlement  

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here, come here with an entitlement mentality, didn't like it, fled the scene because Republicans drove them out of the country in the last election, so they went over to Somalia and started pirating things. Because they have the attitude of entitlement just like a lot of American citizens do.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  Country   Attitude   Citizens  

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• Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

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  Randy Alcorn

  Children   Culture   Gratefulness  

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• A salaried job trains us to be "right" all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. When we become salespeople and marketers, we have to leave all of that behind.

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  Eben Pagan

  Jobs   Thinking   Matter  

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• Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

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  Dennis Prager

  Character   Erosion   Guarantees  

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• What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

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  Brené Brown

  Gratitude   Thankfulness   Privilege  

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• Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

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  Dennis Prager

  Character   Erosion   Guarantees  

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