Unearned Quotes

47 quotes by 36 authors

True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.... — Cecil B. Day
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. — Nathaniel Branden
Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and… — Edward Abbey
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of… — William Graham Sumner
There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of… — Neal A. Maxwell
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most… — Ayn Rand
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed… — Steven Pinker
It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to… — Julian Robertson
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to… — Ayn Rand
Sentimentality is unearned emotion. — James Joyce
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious,… — William Graham Sumner
Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good. — Gerald M. Loeb
In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system… — Joseph Prince
Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build… — Andrew Simms
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people… — Peggy McIntosh
I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the… — Seth Godin
If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence. — Ayn Rand

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