Top 56 Earned Not Given Quotes
#3. Respect is earned, not given
Someone
#6. Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned
Rick Riordan
#7. You can buy a person's time and work, but you cannot buy their enthusiasm, effort, and passion. Those are earned, and as such, given freely.
Jeffrey Fry
#8. Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#9. 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.
Sonu Nigam
#10. Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.
Anthony Powell
#11. In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Robert Hunter
#12. If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.
Robert Kiyosaki
#13. 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.
Dustin Moskovitz
#14. Such grace is never held in abeyance, never earned or deserved. It is not given to some and not to others. Grace is ever present; it is only our openness to it that comes and goes. In one sense, The Way of Liberation is a means of opening up to grace.
Adyashanti
#16. 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
#17. World is full of people waiting to pursue their passion, if given a chance.
Unfortunately, the "chance" will not be given, it needs to be earned.
Manoj Arora
#18. But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#19. God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God's grace - not earned by your works.
Jim George
#21. Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity.
Carlos Wallace
#22. Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it.
Habeeb Akande
#23. Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
Chaim Weizmann
#24. It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.
Bob Gibson
#25. 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
#26. In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
LeBron James
#27. Forgiveness isn't something given... It's something earned. What could I do to earn it, Aileana? Nothing. - Sorcha
Elizabeth May
#28. 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.
Albert Einstein
#29. You'll never appreciate something you're given as much as something you've earned.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#31. 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
#32. There's an old saying, Zill. Freedom can't be given, only earned.
Brian K. Vaughan
#33. What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Vincent Van Gogh
#34. Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.
Jon Krakauer
#35. Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones.
Cornelia Funke
#36. 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.
Max Heindel
#38. Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.
A.J. Darkholme
#39. Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it.
Auliq Ice
#40. Joy is a gift given not an emotion earned.
Todd Stocker
#41. Love should always be given, but trust must be earned, and never forget or else be tagged the fool, doomed to repeat history.
L.M. Fields
#42. 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
#43. [Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.
Shauna Niequist
#44. People will pay exactly what things are worth give or take a few bucks. You might pay a few bucks more if you like the dealer and think the dealer will take care of you, but most people are going to the internet and don't care about that. I don't think that hard earned money is given away.
Paul Reed Smith
#45. You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
Robert Kennedy
#46. Millie, I was given one good thing in my life, the family I was born into. I found one good thing, my Club ... But in all my life, I only earned one good thing. That's you.
Kristen Ashley
#47. A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.
Jack Hyles
#48. He hasn't earned your your mercy."
Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.
A. Lee Martinez
#49. 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
#50. Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#51. It is good to know that every single title/rank you hold is earned in a high cost of hard work, not some random self given title/rank.
Euginia Herlihy
#52. 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
#53. When grace is given it comes to us as joy, maybe, but it can also be earned, I am convinced, through the rigorous examination of the sources of pain.
May Sarton
#54. We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
Lyman Abbott
#55. This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules - it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared. Or
Stephenie Meyer
#56. Friendships were tricky things, especially friendships as old as theirs was. Nudity was nothing more than a collection of hard-earned scars and marks. Love was a given, uncomplicated by sex or vows, but honesty was always waiting there, ready to capsize the steady boat.
Emma Straub
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