Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title. ” “Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them. ” Lady Placida laughed. “True enough. But perhaps that is beginning to change. ” She offered her hands. “It is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder.
Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.
He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.
We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.
I have earned my disillusionment.
Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
There is no happiness that isn't earned
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.
Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.