Top 232 Earned Quotes

I grew from nothing. I have been through everything and I have earned it.

Black women have earned the right to be basic.

Schwarzenegger is big, he’s noisy, he’s larger than life, and he’s earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America’s Green superhero.

I’ve earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways – as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

I’ve earned quite a lot of money in Donetsk.

Think of the phrase ‘dining institution’ as a badge of honour. One that is earned after many years, and many more hearts won.

I’d earned enough money, I had a flat in Wimbledon, I did some corporate things, but I was really unhappy. After being challenged all my life, suddenly there were no challenges any more.

At Inter, I earned my wages based on the results on the field.

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.

The tag of a ‘National Award winner’ earned me a lot of respect from a lot of people. I like that in a way.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it’s a good, earned feeling now.

I’ve earned a lot of money, seen everything, and have a wonderful family. What else can I do?

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn’t have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

If you earned money listening to music, I’d be a millionaire.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

When you talk about the coal communities we need a senator to protect the benefits these coal miners need and deserve and earned, because coal powered our country in the 20th Century.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it’s not easy.

I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes… it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

I main-evented a sold-out Budokan Arena show; I participated in the first-ever ladder match in NJPW, made the transition from junior to heavyweight, and earned a G1 win with a series full of performances that I’m personally very proud of.

Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his country needed him, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Shot in Iraq, he earned a Purple Heart, and after he recuperated, he graduated from Marine Corps Scout Sniper School and was deployed to Afghanistan.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Ronald Reagan was the Governor of California. He had earned the right to be considered for President of the United States. You learn a lot about a person by the way they have served. None of this applies to Trump. There’s no disclosure with him. I just think the man is a very troubled, emotional mess.

I think the biggest thing is people forget that we’re these crazy athletes with these athlete bodies and stuff, but it’s just important to feed the other side of it, and if there’s a piece of cake there, have the piece of cake. You earned it. You only live once.

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

If you’ve earned a position, be proud of it. Don’t hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, ‘There’s Joan Crawford!’ I turn around and say, ‘Hi! How are you!’

I went to Villarreal for 30% less than I could have earned in Mexico.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

It doesn’t matter if I’m a rival of Anderson Silva’s or not; I’m also very objective. And I’m not going to take something from a guy that he earned. Anderson Silva earned the right to be called the greatest of all time. And those are just the facts.

I’ve had some ‘riotous excursions of the human spirit’ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement – duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Seeing somebody get what they earned is always a blessing.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

America’s men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedication, and valor are the envy of the world. When their time in uniform is over, they are entitled to world-class health care, a benefit they’ve earned and that their country is grateful to provide for them.

Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that while I’d give my father the money I earned, anything that was special to me – like an award or an album – would be given to my mother.

I’ll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

When you’re a solo artist and you’re not doing well, it can be pretty tough. So when success does come, it feels like you’ve earned it.

Twelve years is a long time in any professional sport. I felt that that longevity speaks to something – and to the fact that I’ve earned a right to speak.

There’s a lot to be said for expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Even if you didn’t lose your job, if you’re one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don’t have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you’ve earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Medina Spirit earned his Kentucky Derby win and my pharmacologists have told me that 21 picograms of betamethasone would have had no effect on the outcome of the race.

I felt a failure because I couldn’t sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn’t hire me as a real writer.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

I’m pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I’ve earned the right to be critical.

‘The Daily Show,’ which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it’s written mostly by men.

Spare a thought for people like me who sweated it out for our moment of glory and the joy we brought for the country. I had earned my records the hard way.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I’ve had to work for every penny I have earned and I’m proud of that.

A billion saved is a billion earned.

I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can’t seem to get to grips with money.

I’ve enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

Everybody understands that you’re supposed to say ‘our employees are our most valuable asset’ to the point where, even if it’s really true, they’re not going to really trust you until you’ve earned that – same with customers.

I received an offer from China: I would’ve earned an incredible sum. But Napoli didn’t want me to go, and I wanted to stay. So nothing came of it.

There shouldn’t be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn’t be any budget problems.

I’m a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master’s degree in education from Florida State University.

Low-wage individuals barely get anything. I think we have to reward work, and I do think that we need to bump up the earned income tax credit to help low-wage workers.

With what I’ve already achieved in my career – winning trophies and playing in finals, important matches against Real Madrid and Barcelona, winning the Europa League and the Super Cup, and in the Champions League – sometimes you’ve earned the right to say something.

I think it’s always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You’re not a hero unless you’ve gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don’t believe in ‘deserved,’ but I might believe in ‘earned.’

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

In 1988, I earned something like £700,000. Yeah! I was earning 10 grand an hour opening shopping centres. Yeah! The most I earned in one day was 65 grand. I opened the Alton Towers fun ride in the morning, did a commercial in the afternoon and an appearance at a nightclub in the evening. Sixty-five grand in one day!

The money I have earned has given me the opportunity to give back to the people who do not have the same opportunities as me.

Women have shown their skills and that’s why they have been accepted in the industry. It’s through their skill that they have managed to make a mark for themselves and also earned respect.

We earned any fans with the way we play.

I think you have to every day as an NFL player. I think you have to go out there… and show that you earned the right to be an NFL player and you earn the right every single day by your work habits, your preparation and the way you perform on the field.

Let’s take it back to John Cena and Rock back in the day, when people felt like they was just shoved down their throats. Eventually, they earned the people’s respect, and the next thing you know, they were just loved by the whole world.

Too many times I see these omnipotent detectives who know everything, who pull up in really slick cars, and their hair’s all really nice and the girls fall in love with them. They haven’t earned the right. It just doesn’t happen like that.

With how well I have been playing, I have earned the love of the fans.

Floyd Mayweather has fought the biggest names throughout his career and has earned the right to face whoever he chooses.

I believe I have earned my shot in F1. I have won F3, and we all know F3 is a very high level.

I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had my fees paid, and I had a grant as well. I also earned money from my waitressing and designing and selling my own range of dinosaur cards.

Other people’s view was that saving a rupee is a rupee earned. But for our family, earning two rupees is a rupee earned. That means spending that 1 rupee to make that happen is what it is. It is a difference of risk-taking appetite, going out and doing stuff.

I’m a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

I’m proud to have earned a 100 percent score from Planned Parenthood and to have been previously endorsed by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro Choice.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Man’s natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress – however messy they may be – certainly won’t be pretty. But trust isn’t earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B. guns were not even a part of the conversation.

While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.

When that holiday party or happy hour comes along, shut her on down. Turn off the Blackberry, put your phone on silent, and go get ’em at the party. After all, you’re about the only one who’s earned it.

I could have moved to Russia, earned more money, and felt more relaxed. But I chose another option and joined Lazio.

I earned more than other riders, but even in my best year I never grossed more than about $300,000.

It’s always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they’ve seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we’ve earned their applause.

I have never had a man give me money. I’ve always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I’ve never felt unequal in that way.

Nobody should underestimate me. When you have a self-made fighter like I am with the Pride belt I earned, it’s not good to underestimate him.

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

Don’t do another show just because someone thinks that there’s a dollar to be earned there. Do it because you love the characters, and you love the world, and you really, truly feel both the fans and you as a storyteller can benefit from having the second show.

In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings – say, some two-three lakhs – and getting your book printed. It’s not published; it’s printed!

Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That’s a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.

I moved to New York aged 16, and worked part-time in a Korean store in South Bronx selling groceries, bread and confectionery. I earned $10 and it was painful because I didn’t want to be there. I also worked in Debenhams as a kid, and a Wimpy in Brighton when I was 20.

We’ve shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we’ll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people’s respect. We’re not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We’ve proved we’re the real deal.

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

That’s why you can’t be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned – the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

My sophomore year at high school, I spent $300 I had earned working at After School Matters for my first studio session. For a 16-year-old to sacrifice that much money was pivotal. It spoke a lot about how serious I was.

I find it baffling that for years and years I got tremendous stick for the amount of money I earned.

Yeah, trust is earned. To a degree, it just comes with time.

Not a single disabled veteran in America should be forced to live under the weight of student debt, and they shouldn’t have to file paperwork or cut through red tape to get the relief they earned through their sacrifices for this country.

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

I know that I’m getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she’s telling it like it is. She’s proud of me when I’ve earned it and she’s disappointed in me when I’ve earn that. She’s really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

There’ll always be a difference between a star and an actor. I’ve nothing against stars. They’ve earned it and deserve it. I’m happy being just an actor.

In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.

Yes, I love good clothes, good shoes, but I earned it.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

No one can take away what I’ve done in this game. Everything I’ve done, I’ve earned it so far.

When they return home from serving our country, our National Guard and Reserve members shouldn’t have to be confronted with red tape in order to access the benefits they’ve earned fighting for our country.

As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.

Austin Aries, A.J. Styles, and Samoa Joe are all super talented, and all three of them have earned everything they’ve gotten.

I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Eileen Gu, I think, has had to sacrifice her American passport. So welcome to China. I hope stardom and the riches that you have earned through betraying America are all worth it, because you have definitely sold out.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven’t.

I don’t envy anybody else’s career because I feel they’ve earned where they’re at and worked hard. I wouldn’t mind Jack White’s gig, though. He does it all!

I don’t like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven’t earned as an actor, performer or director.

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Earned sick leave gives workers a lot more confidence and adds to their participation in the economy.

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of ‘The Yale Law Journal.’

I have no political weight, and I haven’t earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.

I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used.

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn’t find any acting jobs.

As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.

For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, ‘Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I’ve earned slightly more wealth.’ I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.

When movement isn’t enough, you dance, or when speaking isn’t enough, you sing. When it’s organic, and it’s earned like that in a musical, that’s when it works, and then there’s nothing like it because it’s this thing that takes you to a whole ‘nother level, you know?

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it’s not there because I’ve spent it. That’s what it’s there for. I don’t want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

But I don’t pretend I earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Once you’re retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you’re done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance – which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast – takes over.

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

Super Bowl XXXII was a victory made long before stepping on that field in San Diego in 1998. It was earned with my brother guiding me as a kid in Glennville, Ga., and as a seventh-round pick out of Savannah State. Even at the pinnacle, that ring was always his.

When I uploaded my very first video, I was just looking for something to make me happy. I was confused about what I was doing in my life and had earned a degree that I didn’t really enjoy. With that video, I was finally doing something I was passionate about. So it was my way of self-medicating.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn’t feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don’t think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

While bad cops should face the full consequence of the law, the overwhelming majority of good cops have earned our support.

It’s not normal when you finish playing collegiate ball to be able to jump right into the NFL and work for Jon Gruden. That doesn’t happen if you don’t have your grandfather that has the connections and has earned the respect around this league. And for that, I feel very fortunate.

I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 – not $10,000 – that he would not take the offer.

Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as ‘founding fathers.’

I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I’ve also earned it.

I want to be like an Undertaker and be around so when your music hits, people go crazy because of that respect that you’ve earned over 20, 25 years of going on the ride for them.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don’t think everyone has earned the microphone. And that’s what the Internet has done.

You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don’t want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

Whether you love him or whether you hate him, Roman Reigns has earned his spot, and I’m hot at all these little crybabies out there going, ‘We just stand up and boo him because we really don’t like him.’ Oh, really?

‘Green Lantern’ I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I’m glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience – it has to be earned along the way.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I used to say in the cabinet room, ‘confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach – you can’t take the top off and swallow it down.’ You know, confidence has to be earned.

I’ve earned every wrinkle on my face. I actually like my wrinkles. And guess what? There are a lot of 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn.

I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I’ve earned my own money; I’ve traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie’s novel ‘Fury’ earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn’t share the stage with me.

There’s a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you’ve earned.

For a Punjabi singer to find acceptance down South is a tall task. I’m glad I earned their love and respect.

Let me say this: MS Dhoni has earned the right to retire when he wants to.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition – from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

Respect is not ever assigned; it’s earned.

Under Donald Trump, our deals will be smarter, our soldiers will have what they need, and our veterans will have what they earned. We will secure our borders, protect our nation. In all this, we will be more serious. And when we do, this nation will start winning again.

When Atletico wanted to sell me, I was told that I earned too much money and they wanted me off the wage bill. I liked that honesty.

I grew up in the seaside town of Porthcawl in South Wales, the third eldest of four children. We weren’t overly bookworm-ish but I found the library magical – and I thought librarians earned their wages from book fines!

We owe these heroes a great deal – it is our solemn responsibility to ensure that all veterans receive the care and respect they have earned.

I look in the mirror and see lines, but I have earned those lines. It has taken me 59 years to get them and I am not losing them now.

I have no problem with Brock Lesnar being a part-timer, because he’s earned that spot. He’s a multiple time champion in WWE, a former UFC Champion, NCAA amateur wrestling champion, so his accolades speak for themselves.

No one has ever taken a serious stab at reducing fraud and cheating in Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, earned income tax credits, and so on. Trump will.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

Some athletes take what we have for granted. They kind of feel, ‘I’m here, and I earned this, so people who are not on this level should just give me what I want and move out the way.’

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father’s musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn’t sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

I’m relaxed about my career. I’ve been making movies for over 20 years, so I’ve earned at least the right to relax.

I don’t know if the money I’ve earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

What’s great about my father is that, because we’ve been involved in the business from such a young age, he’s given us – and we’ve earned – autonomy, and he’s given us the rope to go out and grow the brand.

Well, I like regulation as little as anybody else. It can be intrusive. It can be detailed. It can be bureaucratic. It can be unevenly administered. It can be unfair. But most regulations that we have for mutual funds and for banks are regulations that we earned. We did something wrong and we’re paying a price for it.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

I’m a good dressmaker. When I was a student I made all my own clothes, and earned good money making ball gowns and wedding dresses for my friends.

Great horror movies are earned. ‘Halloween’ is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they’re able to maintain getting there.

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

I did 21 years of hard labor in the NBA, invested my money right, so I’m set. I earned the right to relax and enjoy, you know?

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they’ve got to hold that seat – and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it’s how I earned a living.

There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not – not amnesty – earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

My first 26 years was a time of hard work. I was an obedient child to my parents. Whatever I earned, I gave to my parents and never asked them where it went.

I earned my famous name.

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it’s easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience’s trust.

I haven’t earned much money through films.

Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.

I feel like I’ve earned respect with how I go about my business, how I carry myself.

It’s frustrating at times when you think you’ve earned a chance to play on the field and you’re over there sitting on the bench. That’s not the kind of player I am. I’m the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.

I think sequels should be earned and we won’t do it unless the script is better than the first one.

Every pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children. It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.

ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in the park.

If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.

If I see someone break down in tears, I don’t necessarily feel empathy for them in those moments unless it’s really warranted. I feel like a tear needs to be warranted in a movie; it needs to be earned.

I’ve earned every stripe that I’ve gotten. I’ve earned every playing time.

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.

I’ve earned some decent money, and bragging rights, and boxed on a Floyd Mayweather undercard in Vegas… but it’s a fraction of what I set out to do.

I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

When the tax law changes and people are allowed to choose where their hard earned money goes, then do-gooders can opt to have their money go wherever they see fit. I would rather keep mine and invest and donate with greater efficiency.

I’m the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

Sir Terry Pratchett – he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled – wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.

There are about 100 German companies in Nigeria, and German investors have earned a lot of respect from Nigeria because of the quality of the manufactured goods they produce, especially machinery.

The gratification you feel from making tangible progress while running is just about unparalleled, so I understand why people love it. But it’s also hard, grueling work. Those feel-good benefits have to be earned four to five times a week.

I love to show off my body, and I feel like I earned it.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don’t say, ‘Are you the new John Lennon?’ Every time a new rapper comes out, it’s not, ‘Are you the new Dre?’ I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation’s accolade.

A national team is a reflection of its country’s football, and both Brazil and Argentina have earned respect for what they’ve achieved.

Until 1954, I’d only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

I’m constantly working, and I’ve earned everything that I’ve been able to achieve on my own, and that’s what being the eldest of 14 taught me.

It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.

I could have earned lots of crores by doing hundreds of more ‘Rangeela’ that came my way.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person’s belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

It’s hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it’s not something you feel like you’ve earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It’s like somebody giving you a puzzle that’s already put together.

To those who call me a mercenary I say that I also had interest from abroad, where I would have earned more. I have chosen Milan because, in my head, there is the idea of repeating the course I had at Juventus, where we had started rebuilding, as in this case, and we came to the top.

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.