Top 53 Must Be Earned Quotes
#1. Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
Robert Lembke
#2. How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good and great. So if you're neither good nor great, you can only use fear ...
J.H. Myn
#3. The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
Christopher Hitchens
#4. The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.
James Dobson
#5. Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#6. Concerning Personal Branding and Social Media; Understand that attention came be gained or gamed but trust must be earned
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#7. People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned
it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned
and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
Charles A. Murray
#8. 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
#9. Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.
Rick Riordan
#10. The highest qualities of character ... must be earned.
Lyman Abbott
#11. Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.
Laura Schlessinger
#12. Don't worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.
S.W. Lothian
#13. If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
Ann Voskamp
#14. It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
Barbara Jordan
#15. One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily ... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.
Ezra Taft Benson
#16. We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
PZ Myers
#17. A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
Stephen King
#18. Pain teaches, Par'chin, Jardir had once told him, and so we give it freely. Pleasure teaches nothing, and so must be earned.
Peter V. Brett
#19. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
Janet Morris
#20. Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise
themselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Charles Caleb Colton
#22. You of all people know how hard it is to trust. Especially when the world we live in is not the one humans are aware of. Trust must be earned, and the way to earn it is to prove you deserve it.
Elizabeth Morgan
#23. Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart's blood must gem with red beads the brow of the combatant, before the wreath of victory rustles over it.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. Redemption must be earned. If we want it, we will work for it, even though we can never obtain it on our own.
Jodi Meadows
#25. 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
#26. What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#27. Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
Barack Obama
#28. 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.
Sophie Von La Roche
#29. 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
#30. With each choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of your soul, you empower yourself. Authentic power is built up step by step, choice by choice. It cannot be meditated or prayed into being. It must be earned.
Gary Zukav
#31. But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#32. Nobility on earth may be earned by the sword, but nobility of the soul must be sought in stony ways and through hard endeavor. I have to tell you to rejoice that you have been chosen.
Dorothy Dunnett
#33. 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
#34. Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned
Rick Riordan
#35. The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#36. 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
#37. Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
Chaim Weizmann
#38. Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt.
Anthony Trollope
#39. You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. If I do all those things for you
soothe you, center you, give you strength
then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.
J. Kenner
#40. A lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned
Ani DiFranco
#41. Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
Hank Johnson
#42. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#43. Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
Wallace Stevens
#44. Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#45. I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
Jean Rhys
#47. 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
#48. A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.
Gretchen Rubin
#49. 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
#50. In all Things you must appear important. No minor decisions pass through your hands unless they are quiet acts called 'Favors' done for people whose loyalty can be earned.
Frank Herbert
#51. [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
#52. But a yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train your child. Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. It has to be earned through sweat.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#53. If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
Madeleine L'Engle
