Earned Quotes

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.