Quotes About Paying Dues

#1. Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.

Rose Schneiderman

#2. Effort for the sake of effort is as foolish a tradition as paying dues. How much better is hard work when it's amplified by a lever? Platforms teach us skills and allow us to focus on being great, rather than reinventing wheels or repeating ourselves.

Shane Snow

#3. People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.

Barbara Walters

#4. I'm always late.

Sade Adu

#5. Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Mackenzie Astin

#6. People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.

CM Punk

#7. The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

Alan Arkin

#8. There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

Abhishek Bachchan

#9. Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks.

Thom S. Rainer

#10. Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

Taylor Kitsch

#11. When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

Albert Shanker

#12. Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.

Tom Black

#13. I'm a believer in paying your dues.

Dana Fox

#14. I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

Amanda Bynes

#15. Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

Lupe Fiasco

#16. Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Chuck Zito

#17. It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.

Russell Brand

#18. My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you ... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

Hugh Jackman

#19. Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that ... And this is not a belief that you can get from me or from Buddha or from Jesus. This is not knowledge; you will have to see it. You can see it right now!

Rajneesh

#20. A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.'

Michael Easton

#21. Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Carlos Ghosn

#22. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

Kevin O'Leary

#23. I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Leif Garrett

#24. Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

John McCain