Earned Quotes

648 quotes by 558 authors

Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept… — Caprice Crane
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody… — Thomas Sowell
Fox dung! I'm a loyal ShadowClan cat. If I'm ever made deputy or leader it will be because I have earned it myself - and… — Erin Hunter
Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have… — Mary Balogh
What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality? — Hiromu Arakawa
Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith? — Nicholas Sparks
What's possible?â€ - she asked â€œAnything,â€ he said absently. â€œBut thatâ€™s not what I was talking about. Oh, hello, Claire. Youâ€™re in good time. I… — Rachel Caine
His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling… — Patrick deWitt
Womenâ€™s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering… — Waris Dirie
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it. — May Sarton
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could… — Jean Rhys
What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him… — Jonathan Franzen
Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned. — David Gemmell
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists… — Ann Aguirre
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. — Rose Tremain
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers donâ€™t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates… — Steven Pressfield
Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They… — Doris Lessing
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your… — Ann Voskamp

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