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.
Optimism. . . . is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
I have finally accepted that there are consequences to every action. I earned them and they are rightfully mine. There is no time to make bad decisions. Every step is precious. The definition of living is mine.
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
Trust is earned. Like gold.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
Master's degree in journalism served several purposes. It helped me to break down and understand scripts. And the discipline of getting my master's gave me a certain amount of confidence. I don't think college is the only path, but I enjoyed it and it worked out very well for me. I had some good friends with whom I could get a little crazy, but still be responsible. It was the perfect bridge from living at home to independence. I also love learning. I might have been a professional student and earned a couple of doctorates, if I didn't have to pay bills.
I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.
I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned
A billion saved is a billion earned.
Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.
I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.
A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
I earned my famous name.