Earning It Quotes

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  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Business, Philosophical

  "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

  Brad Henry

  Mean, Earning, Earning A Living

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teaching, Ignorance

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Example, Way, Teach

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• Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Ungrateful, Lazy

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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  Beatrix Potter

  Education, Memorable, Learning

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• I am still learning, myself, but I guess I would say to be aware of what is around you. Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it. Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

  Tricia Helfer

  Hard Work, Play, Be Kind

  "ORIGIN Series: Battlestar Galactica, Razor, and Suits Actor Tricia Helfer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Young, Starting

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.74, Applewood Books

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• Security comes from earning it-not seeking it.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Nfl, Seeking

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• The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

  Horace Greeley

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

  E. W. Howe

  Marriage, Money, Men

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• The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

  Horace Greeley

  Money, Men, Careers

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• Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

  Simon Sinek

  Leadership, Mean, Want

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.65, Penguin

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• My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.

  Ivan Boesky

  Class, Giving, Advice

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• I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Mother, Money, Father

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

  Francis Chan

  Reality, Forgiving, And Love

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• Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

  David L. Katz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Mirrors

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