What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
. . . in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?
Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. . . . works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.
Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.