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1042 Earn quotes by 793 unique authors
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Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten…
— George Orwell
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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust,…
— Charles de Lint
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The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the…
— Tim Harford
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He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of…
— Tessa Dare
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You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.
— P. C. Cast
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May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly,…
— Veronica Roth
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I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
— Eloisa James
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It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with…
— James A. Baldwin
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Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.
— Shannon Hale
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You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
— Sarah Dessen
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There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.
— Alyson Noel
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One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?
— Jodi Picoult
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Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then…
— Carlo Collodi
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If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing…
— Terry Goodkind
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We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us…
— Sándor Márai
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The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A…
— Neil Peart
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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future…
— Gregory David Roberts
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If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families…
— Gregory David Roberts
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But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well…
— Walter E. Williams
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
— Oscar Wilde
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I have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard them your entire…
— Larry Winget
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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game…
— O. Henry
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