Earned Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.