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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned. – Emily Dickinson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned. – Richard Bach	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, 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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A dollar saved is a quarter earned. – John Ciardi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A penny saved is a penny earned. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I don't think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given. – Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned. – Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. – Richard M. Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who joyfully marches 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 suffice. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be 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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. – Jane Haddam	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune... – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. – Ruth Smeltzer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given. – Real Live Preacher	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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