Unearned Quotes
47 quotes by 36 authors
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True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving....
— Cecil B. Day
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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.
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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
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The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
— Nathaniel Branden
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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
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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
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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
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
— James Joyce
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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
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Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good.
— Gerald M. Loeb
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
— Ayn Rand
Who Wrote These Unearned Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 47 Unearned Quotes, led by these top contributors: