Earned Quotes
648 quotes by 558 authors
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More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you…
— John Corapi
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I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy…
— Art Buchwald
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of…
— Tom Peters
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The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so…
— Paul Scott
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A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.
— Jack Hyles
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I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, “I’m beautiful because…
— Margaret Cho
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My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish.…
— Teresa Heinz
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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be…
— William Butler Yeats
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Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.
— Stuart Duncan
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Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity…
— Billy Graham
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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
— Richard Bach
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Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned
— Howard Schultz
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I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience…
— George Vithoulkas
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I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight…
— Jason Collins
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I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
— Jay Roach
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About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really…
— Nate Berkus
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Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the…
— Robert James Waller
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By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful…
— Wilhelm Frick
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your…
— Victoria Moran
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