Quotes with earned

  • My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
  • Now, you have to tighten your belts, because we, your leaders, mis-spent your hard-earned money. Know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck.
  • This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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  • Denis Waitley Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Napoleon Hill All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Never spend your money before you have earned it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lyman Abbott The highest qualities of character… must be earned.
    Lyman Abbott
    American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. (1835 - 1922)
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  • Bill Skarsgard Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Butch Trucks Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • William Wordsworth For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Albert Einstein He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Burgess Owens If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • William Shakespeare It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Gibson It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.
    Bob Gibson
    American baseball player (1935 - 2020)
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  • Ashley Montagu It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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