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.
If I am ever the starter of the Denver Broncos, I want it to be because I earned it.
I earned my famous name.
Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.
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.
I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.
I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.
It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.
America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.
Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.
For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company's actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors.
I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.
The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.
My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
I'm just getting my sea legs. The first time you make them laugh, you're like, 'Oh my God - that just happened.' Then you're like, 'I made them laugh. I've earned this.'
A penny saved is a penny earned.
We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'
I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it.
I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.
