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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. -- Tillie Olsen
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. -- Franz Beckenbauer
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return. -- Robert Solow
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. -- Evan Esar
Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. -- Gustav Heinemann
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns. -- Tina Weymouth
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it. -- Noel Gallagher
I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years. -- Brett Hull
The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. -- Smedley Butler
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. -- Fredrik Bajer
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large. -- Andrea Jung
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing. -- Michael Haneke
There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it. -- Michael Moore
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living. -- Leila Janah
An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict. -- Marianne Williamson
I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself. -- Marta Kristen
I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain. -- Sonia Sotomayor
A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence. -- Steven Pinker
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review. -- Dennis C. Blair
The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to marry profit and purpose. The reason brands participate is that such outreach earns those companies social currency enabling them to start or participate in conversations that connect them to consumers in meaningful ways. -- Simon Mainwaring
My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves. -- James McNerney
At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do. -- Tyler Cowen
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime. -- Barack Obama
Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness -- Dennis Prager
No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million. -- Fran Lebowitz
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect. -- Bruce Lee
Today's obedience earns tomorrow's rewards!" (My original quote) -- Lalita Smith
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness -- Ignatius of Loyola
Disrespect earns the displeasure of the creator and the creation. -- Abdul-Qadir Gilani
Honor may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power. -- Ishida Mitsunari
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation. -- Amit Kalantri
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. -- Ruth Beechick
It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. -- Ayn Rand
A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband. -- H. L. Mencken
He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace. -- Robert Browning
It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money. -- Tony Blair
Air, an undervalued necessity, that earns your gratitude when you inhale it for the last time -- Shaun Neil King
Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect. -- Magic Johnson
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns -- W.S. Gilbert
Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect. -- Bryant McGill
A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. -- John Galt
President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating. -- Jay Leno
Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled. -- Suze Orman
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. -- Albert Einstein
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. -- Henry Miller
The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body. -- Myrtle Reed
Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage. -- Ann McLane Kuster
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust. -- Warren Farrell
All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition. -- Peter Thiel
Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living. -- Brooks Atkinson
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs. -- Herodotus
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. -- Mortimer Adler
He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. -- George S. Clason
If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market. -- Ilana Mercer
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine. -- Warren Buffett
[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. -- George S. Clason
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. -- Klaus Balkenhol
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up. -- Walter Cunningham
A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death. -- Sister Souljah
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man. -- Gregory David Roberts
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers. -- Murray Rothbard
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains. -- Washington Irving
While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward. -- John F. Kennedy
Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well. -- Richard Livingstone
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Give your dog something to do before you share food, water, toys or affection. This way the dog earns his treat. For example, have him or her perform the "sit" or "down" command. -- Cesar Millan
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds. -- Will Rogers
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. -- Stephen F. Lynch
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