Quotes of Deserved - somelinesforyou

“ Pennies do not come from heaven — they have to be earned here on earth. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. ”

- Fred A. Clark

“ Earned with the sweat of my brows. ”

- Cervantes

“ A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ There can be no liberty that isn't earned. ”

- Robert R. Young

“ Those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited. ”

- Orson Scott Card

“ Luck is not chance — It's Toil — Fortune's expensive smileIs earned. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ The highest qualities of character must be earned. ”

- Lyman Abbott

“ In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ”

- Paul Gauguin

“ Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ He earned the respect and admiration of all the people here in New York. ”

- Mark Messier

“ Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience. ”

- Harry Golden

“ The way I look at it, it's not enough to be talented; you have to reach deep down within yourself and make that extra effort that will put you over the top. ”

- Niesha Butler

“ The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend. ”

- Martha Mason

“ The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. ”

- John Lubbock

“ The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. ”

- Arthur Ashe

“ 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

“ Good design is a form of respect - on the part of the producer for the person who will eventually spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product. ”

- David Brown

“ Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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

“ 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
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