Earned Quotes

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

He who joyfully marches to music 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.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

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.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

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.

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.