Entitlement mentality is a narcissistic trait. People with a sense of entitlement feel like the world and the people around them OWE them something even when little or nothing has been done to deserve it.
Entitlement is when somebody leans on you too much expecting you to solve their problems and make their lives better. Entitlement means demanding the kindness of others without thought of these other people dispensing kindness. Entitlement means accepting favors and goodwill without a word of gratitude or appreciation.
Having an entitled person in our lives can be annoying, irritating, and very frustrating. However, when it is countries and heads of states who display entitlement mentality, the world becomes an extremely dangerous place for innocent people.
Here are some entitlement quotes you can think on today.
I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. – Lee Siegel
Entitlementi is a delusion built on self-centeredness and laziness.
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. – Guy Kawasaki
We are notorious for ‘running’ around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon the millions who ‘ran’ across bloodied battlefields so that we would have rights to declare, I think we’d do a whole lot less declaring and a whole more appreciating. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.
Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it. – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment. – Bill Bailey
Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program. – Susan RoAne
You’re entitled to your negative opinions but talk slowly; I only have two middle fingers to go around. – Rachel Wolchin
You youngsters nowadays think you’re to begin with living well and working easy; you’ve no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback. – George Eliot
Entitlement and privilege corrupt. – James Stockdale
Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned. – Howard Schultz
I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class. – Chrystia Freeland
Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can’t resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. – Richard Eyre, The Entitlement Trap: How to Rescue Your Child with a New Family System of Choosing, Earning, and Ownership
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. – Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for a while. – Candice Bergen
The abusive man’s high entitlement leads him to have unfair and unreasonable expectations, so that the relationship revolves around his demands. His attitude is: “You owe me.” For each ounce he gives, he wants a pound in return. He wants his partner to devote herself fully to catering to him, even if it means that her own needs—or her children’s—get neglected. You can pour all your energy into keeping your partner content, but if he has this mind-set, he’ll never be satisfied for long. And he will keep feeling that you are controlling him, because he doesn’t believe that you should set any limits on his conduct or insist that he meet his responsibilities.
– Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
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. – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. – Sarah Churchwell
You were given a life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. – Elizabeth Gilbert
It is true that when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it. – Jon Kyl
Grace destroys entitlement. – Justin Buzzard
Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything. – Donny Osmond
The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared. – Howard Schultz
What separates privilege from entitlement is Gratitude. – Brené Brown
Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone’s offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him. – Will Davis Jr.
Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It’s part of being a man. It’s the cultural construction of masculinity. – Jackson Katz
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there’s almost a sense of entitlement to that. – J. J. Abrams
Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. – Guy Kawasaki
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. – Seamus Heaney
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. – Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. – Gloria Allred
Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior. – Jessica Parker Kennedy
We don’t have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it. – Brian France
The decision to marry is every woman’s entitlement, irrespective of her age. – Zeenat Aman
Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement. – Natascha McElhone
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. – Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself. – Charles R. Swindoll
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren’t entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself. – Jonathan Kozol
I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or ‘chosen’ or feel they have an entitlement… be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life. – Liam Cunningham
Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends. – Steven Furtick
Actors devote a lot of our time and energy to the work that we do, but there shouldn’t come a sense of entitlement from fans that we owe them every second of our lives. – Lili Reinhart
Didn’t it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn’t it seem like people always fawned over them even though they behaved badly? Why was that? – Liza Unger
He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from being good-natured, and made him unwilling to forget grudges. – Warren Eyster
Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents’ manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis lessons and ugly cars and liaisons with hot young interns. Hurricanes of entitlement, all swirl and noise and destruction, nothing at their centers. – Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers. – Tullian Tchividjian
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. – Jonathan Franzen
Thankfulness eradicates entitlement. – Perry Noble
You’re not a Princess. And the last time I checked, neither Delusion nor Entitlement were kingdoms.
Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else’s money? – John Stossel
I’m interested in avoiding two types of behavior: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them. – John Elkann
The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security, but to self-esteem. – George F. Will
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance. – Marjorie Hillis
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. – Abraham Lincoln
An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude. – Pete Wilson
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn’t have. – Tiffanie DeBartolo
What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they’re allowed to get away with anything. It’s the sense of entitlement that gets up people’s noses. – Douglas Booth