Earned It Quotes

#1. Reason number five hundred why it was advisable to have oneself for a boss: Even when you hadn't earned it, you could still treat yourself to a coffee break.

Becky Wade

#2. submission would be, because I'd really earned it." "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. Any woman who dared to date you would need an encyclopedia-sized book to keep up.

Lisa Renee Jones

#3. It's often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it's a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion.

Renee Carlino

#4. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.

Julien Smith

#5. I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.

Barry Bonds

#6. Sell. Don't apologize for it and don't be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you've earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn't pay the rent.

Thom Gimbel

#7. The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. Want to hit Leo?
That is understandable
Hunk muffin earned it

Rick Riordan

#9. This is your success and this is the magic hour, the golden time before the time. Just be in it. You earned it. Don't spread it and don't pull on it and don't push it and don't share it and don't examine it. This is it.

Caroline Kepnes

#10. You didn't just accidentally win my favor," I dispute, slowly shaking my
forehead against his.
"You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times ... We might actually be able to call it even.

M.A. George

#11. But no, I came by these feelings honestly. And I don't accept bitter. Wounded, yes. Traumatized, sure. Grieving, okay. Anything other than bitter. I put too much work in to be callously tossed aside as bitter. Bitter is for someone who hasn't earned it.

Samantha Irby

#12. 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.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#13. Most people inherit success and fame; if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. You gave all you had for other people, this is the universe's way of paying you back. You earned it all, son, so stop feeling guilty about it and goddamn enjoy it.

Jay Crownover

#15. The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.

Martha Mason

#16. It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

Ace Frehley

#17. You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It's time you learned some respect!'
'It's time you earned it,' said Harry.

J.K. Rowling

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

Dionne Warwick

#19. an opportunity falls into your lap, accept it with confidence and pride, knowing that you've earned it.

Debra Condren

#20. You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.

Chuck Knox

#21. I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

Robert Jordan

#22. The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place

Bob Dole

#23. Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.

Shelly Crane

#24. Some travelers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Donald Rumsfeld

#26. Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

Michael Ealy

#27. Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

Bill Skarsgard

#28. Buford didn't dress for respect, he earned it. He didn't try to get his name in the newspapers, instead he led with deeds that caused his men to follow his guidon with confidence and the full expectation of success.

Eric J. Wittenberg

#29. That's what love can do for you if you let it: build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn't matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars just prove you earned it.

Elan Mastai

#30. The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects ... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

Ronald Reagan

#31. I wanted to feel good, if only for a minute, and to forget everything for as long as it took us to be bind together and fall apart. I hadn't earned it, but I wanted it.

C.D. Reiss

#32. Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo.
It just simply was.

Mary Balogh

#33. He hasn't earned your your mercy."
Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.

A. Lee Martinez

#34. Live like u've achieved it. Walk like you have somewhere to be. Speak as if it's yours. Exist as if ur life is meant to touch others. work towards ur dream and blot out the nightmare of others. Then receive what is offered because u have earned it. Y'all be easy!

Alicia Smith

#35. Love can't be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other.

Donald Miller

#36. The only factor that affects your chance of getting a raise is whether or not you've earned it. It doesn't matter if your car broke down or that your landlord's raising your rent. Those facts are not your boss's problem. All she needs to know is that you're kicking ass, like a #GIRLBOSS should.

Sophia Amoruso

#37. Fuck you. You can't hurt us anymore. Oblivion is too good for you. Enjoy the fire. You've earned it. Your daughter

R.K. Lilley

#38. Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

Kristen Ashley

#39. Some travellers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame

Henry David Thoreau

#40. 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.

Kirk Gibson

#41. 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.

Randeep Hooda

#42. There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

Conrad Black

#43. Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!"
Harry: "It's time you earned it.

J.K. Rowling

#44. One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven ... works have a place
but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

Ravi Zacharias

#45. If you can win me, you can have me. I'll be yours and you'll have earned it

J.A. Huss

#46. '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.

Ryan Reynolds

#47. 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 to do it.

Billy Graham

#48. Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

Sharon Law Tucker

#49. 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 I love everybody as much as I can. I'm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I'm beautiful because I say I am. I've earned it, and I'm gonna be it.

Margaret Cho

#50. When you've earned something, I mean really earned it, no one can make you doubt that you deserve it. They can't say it isn't yours. There's something about getting a thing that you've bled and fought for that makes the getting that much sweeter.

Rachael Allen

#51. I'm going to let you keep that smug look on your face. You earned it.

Samantha Young

#52. I'll tell you why, gorgeous. Because I'm finally going to taste your pussy and I want to fucking ache while I do it. When I'm inside you tonight, I need to know I earned it.

Tessa Bailey

#53. Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift!

Louisa Edwards

#54. The reason you have to say "Trust me" is that you haven't earned it and are forced to ask for it - BAD MOVE.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#55. Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

Barbara Corcoran

#56. This burden of Brahmins, no one understands. The sacrifice they make for knowledge, when the whole world sleeps they wake setting standards for the mediocre. But it is their arrogance that is taken note of. They have earned it, haven't they?

Aporva Kala

#57. If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses.
Without their hard work and supreme idiotism it wouldn't have been possible.
You owe them the brutal sarcasm, they've earned it!

Himmilicious

#58. I've got a record in Florida. I'm proud of my dad, and I'm certainly proud of my brother. In Florida, they called me Jeb, because I earned it.

Marco Rubio

#59. Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Ayn Rand

#60. I earned this, fair and square. We'll, maybe it hadn't been fair. And maybe it hadn't been precisely square. Still, she'd earned it legally. Legally and ... rectangularly. That would have to do.

Courtney Milan

#61. I have waited hundreds of years for this moment, for your power, for this chance. I have earned it with loss and with struggle. I will have it, Alina. Whatever the cost."
"There will be nothing left," I whispered.

Leigh Bardugo

#62. 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.

Conrad Black

#63. To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

Dean Koontz

#64. She's right, and yet my blood pumps faster, just thinking about having her naked and willingly at my mercy. I can't help but think she's exactly what I need: a challenge. And how sweet her submission would be, because I'd really earned it.

Lisa Renee Jones

#65. I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

Jake Ellenberger

#66. Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.

Margaret Jones

#67. They do not doubt their presence here, these students. They believe they should be here, they have earned it and thay are paying for it. Au fond, they have bought us all. It is the key to America's greatness, this hubris,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#68. Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

George Carlin

#69. If you're ranked number one in the world it's because you've earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.

Andre Agassi

#70. I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've mostly met nice girls-and that's what attracts me.

River Phoenix

#71. When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

Eddie Murray

#72. Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right - an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible.

Og Mandino

#73. No matter what storms come our way, we'll endure them. Together. Because our love is strong and unflappable. Love destroys demons and obliterates broken pasts. Love is ours - finally - and we fucking earned it.

K. Webster

#74. I had my own dump truck of bad karma waiting for me somewhere ahwad. I had certainly earned it, but I raced to avoid it if I could; there was no way I wanted to fell that.

Kevin Hearne

#75. He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that

Michael Connelly

#76. If you don't give trust to others, it's because you haven't earned it. If you don't have trust form others, it's because YOU haven't earned it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#77. Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

May Sarton

#78. The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.

Sheri L. Dew

#79. Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it.

Habeeb Akande

#80. Instead of spending money, I earned it.

P.T. Barnum

#81. Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

#82. Love is neither owed nor earned. It either is or it's not. I gave you the world. But you wanted the stars.

Beau Taplin

#83. Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.

Nick Cole

#84. If our thoughts and beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - are in conflict, they will cancel each other out and nothing will manifest. So if you desire success but believe you have not earned it, you will not succeed.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#85. Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

Colin Powell

#86. America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

Jim Ramstad

#87. You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

Bob Newhart

#88. Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#89. I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

Hugh Jackman

#90. How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Mark Twain

#91. Fox dung! I'm a loyal ShadowClan cat. If I'm ever made deputy or leader it will be because I have earned it myself - and my Clanmates and StarClan wish it. You're twisting the warrior code to get what you want, just like you did when you were alive.

Erin Hunter

#92. The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

John Lubbock

#93. Everybody wants to feel special and loved. But you sort of need to feel like you've earned it.

L.T. Vargus

#94. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven't earned it, who haven't even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.

Bryan Stevenson

#95. It was gratifying, to hear that rare laugh. He felt as though he'd earned it.

Helene Wecker

#96. We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

Mitch Daniels

#97. And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality.

Douglas Coupland

#98. 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.

Neal Boortz

#99. ...I didn't trust you because I liked you. I trusted you because you earned it." -Becky

Robison Wells

#100. That's all that it's going to be. God bless them. But you know what? I've got a nice house and a kid in college, and I'll tell you, we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly.

Lee Terry