Earned Quotes

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.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

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.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

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