I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
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.
I've earned this microphone. No one gave this to me. I've earned this microphone. I use it each day to enter the arena of ideas, and do whatever I can to persuade you to agree with me.
Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
Film is a pretty poor medium to deliver a message. I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to ask a lot of questions and hopefully you can draw your own conclusions about whatever meaning might be there or what point there is; but I was conscious of wanting to create something that for a lack of a better word had a positivity and earned that.
Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof. . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown. . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.
I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.