Earned The Right Quotes

#1. The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

Maaza Mengiste

#2. Why do you tell me ... so much?"
Luthe considered her. "I tell you ... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know
" He stopped ...
"Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

Robin McKinley

#3. We [women] have earned the right to forget about stupefying household busywork. But kitchens where food is cooked and eaten - those were really a good idea. We threw that baby out with the bathwater.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. The way to fight shame and to honor who we are is by sharing our experience with someone who has earned the right to hear it.

Brene Brown

#5. After a lifetime of enabling others, surely she'd earned the right to make her own choices, no matter how outlandish?

Helen Brown

#6. Just being alive - even if you're only on the planet for a few years - is struggle enough. You've earned the right to be remembered.

Paul Acampora

#7. He was fantastic eye candy, and I earned the right to have a few cavities.

Lani Woodland

#8. On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention.

Rinko Kikuchi

#9. Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do.

Donna Lynn Hope

#10. You share with people who've earned the right to hear your story ... You have to earn the right to hear my story. It's an honor to hold space for me when I'm in shame.

Brene Brown

#11. If we can find someone who has earned the right to hear our story, we need to tell it. Shame loses power when it is spoken. In this way, we need to cultivate our story to let go of shame, and we need to develop shame resilience in order to cultivate our story.

Brene Brown

#12. You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

#13. 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.

Emma Watson

#14. As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

RuPaul

#16. This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow.

Cheryl Strayed

#17. When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

Hyrum W. Smith

#18. Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

Craig Ferguson

#19. I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Don Henley

#20. Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.

Harriet Harman

#21. Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.

Brene Brown

#22. I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.

Charlie Adam

#23. I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.

Jason Collins

#24. I earned the right not to compete for a man.
He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him...

Virginia Alison

#25. It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

Fran Lebowitz

#26. I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.

Richard Seymour

#27. I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

Phil Collins

#28. You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.

Lorii Myers

#29. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them. Being vulnerable and open is mutual and an integral part of the trust-building process.

Brene Brown

#30. I don't have the slightest idea what my future holds, but what I do know is that I am capable of figuring it out, and I'm okay being me while I do that. I have earned the right to trust myself. And this feels like freedom to me. My

Lucetta Zaytoun

#31. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

Velma Wallis

#32. When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one,

Charles Woodson

#33. By doing this, apparently they have earned the right to change its name to "beef," which is the monosyllable furthest away from "cow," because the last thing a human wants to think about when eating cow is an actual cow.

Matt Haig

#34. We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

Robert Gottlieb

#35. I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

Graham Roberts

#36. Spiritual Laws ensures that every entity will be at the exact place where it has earned the right to be, by all its previous thoughts, words and actions, including those of the previous lives.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#37. Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

Evangeline Lilly

#38. Judd figured he must have done something right along the way. How else could a rebel arrow have earned the right to call this amazing woman his own? Even if it was a mistake, too damn bad. He was never giving her up.

Nalini Singh

#39. Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.

Frederick Douglass

#40. Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.

Ray Dalio

#41. I earned my place,
With the tidal waves.
I can't escape this feeling,
That something ain't right.
I called my name
As I crashed the gates,
Still I can't escape this feeling
That something ain't right.

All Time Low

#42. True love takes time. It's an earned comfort that tells you she'll be right there beside you no matter what you do, not necessarily happy with your every action, but faithful to you just the same.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#43. I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

Ian Dunbar

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. If you believe you're right ... stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.

Erin Brockovich

#47. I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Jonathan Haidt

#48. All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Virginia Woolf

#49. What do you want, Christian?"
What did I want? To make her smile, to wipe away her tears, to hold her. To be a father, a real father, not one in title, but on who'd earned that right. I wanted to stay.
"I want my family," I forced through the lump in my throat.

A.L. Jackson

#50. The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#51. Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept together for the very first time she looked up at me with her chocolate-brown, trustworthy doe eyes and said, I've got herpes. I thought you should know.

Caprice Crane

#52. If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

Lucy Stone

#53. I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow ... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor ...

James Otis

#54. The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.

James Dobson

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

Shaquille O'Neal

#56. The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.

Jill Johnston

#57. And I never wanted her to be scared of me, or scared of anything again. She'd already lived through the worst life had to offer. She'd earned that right, the right to never be terrified again. Let's

Tess Oliver

#58. 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.

Julian Baggini

#59. And now, the very thing that had earned her the right to call herself Adarlan's Assassin would be what sealed her doom.

Sarah J. Maas

#60. For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.

John Kline

#61. If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

Maajid Nawaz

#62. I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Lucy Stone

#63. A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

Ezra Taft Benson

#64. He's the sort of man who wants power. He doesn't have it, but he thinks he's entitled to it by birthright. He's incapable of earning what he wants, so he wants what he hasn't earned. The sort of man who, if he wants something, thinks it's all right to take it.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#65. It's great to know you've earned your place and to know that you are right for the role because my biggest fear is being offered something and showing up on set and doing one day and everyone going, "Oh geez, oh no, this isn't, she isn't.." and feeling that way myself.

Olivia Wilde

#66. 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.

Eddie Murphy

#67. The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

Ralph Barton Perry

#68. [L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

John Adams

#69. Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. ...
And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Milton Friedman

#70. In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.

Fernando Pessoa