Quotes About Earned

If, and when, I do eventually decide to retire, the announcement will be made by myself. I feel that I have earned the right to do it myself.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Donald Trump went through the process, he earned the vote, and I am not in support of overturning the will of the voters.

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

he felt the destruction had by now been earned in full by humanity...

Societies that robbed humans of what they had rightfully earned by the sweat of their brows paid a steep price for this theft. They destroyed the individual's incentive to work, undermined the general prosperity, and thereby doomed themselves to poverty and famine.

What was that you called me?' 'Oh, Peter – how absurd! I wasn't thinking.' 'What did you call me?' 'My lord!' 'The last two words in the language I ever expected to get a kick out of. One never values a thing till one's earned it, does one? Listen, heart's lady – before I've done I mean to be king and emperor.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Some people confuse the respect that has been earned by fear with the respect earned by love. They are not the same.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero.

Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.

Right then Niner didn't care if she had less idea of guerrilla warfare than a mott. She possessed one fundamental element of leadership that you couldn't teach in a lifetime: she cared about those she led. She had earned her rank on the strength of that alone.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

But not of course in the same condition as heretofore. There is a miraculous bonus in the hunt for the miraculous, as you have noticed before in all these heroes; at every turn of the impossible road is waiting an impossible good, unearned; a present.

In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those who are not entirely beautiful.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she was 16, or the foolish attraction she'd felt. Theirs had been a true love. Forged and built and earned.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.