Quotes About Paying Your Dues

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

John McCain

#2. I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

E.B. White

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

Leif Garrett

#4. The greatest power in the world is choice.

John Patrick Hickey

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

Kevin O'Leary

#6. She was here to frame him, not screw him. Damn, the legends were true. There was something innately alluring about Andarions. Almost like they put off some kind of ferocious do-me pheromone.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.

Anne Rice

#8. I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

Bas Rutten

#9. Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Jim Rohn

#10. 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

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

Lupe Fiasco

#12. 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

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

Dana Fox

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

Aryn Kyle

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

Albert Shanker

#18. 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

#19. I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Jimmy Carter

#20. The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.

Robert Pattinson

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

Thom S. Rainer

#22. 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

#23. Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products.

Al Ries

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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