Earning Quotes - Page 2

• If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

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• No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Night, Years, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.

  Anuj

  Humble, Simple, Awards

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• My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

  Max Lucado

  Boys, Encounters, Way

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• I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.

  Jill Scott

  Creativity, College, Theatre

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• Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Acceptance, Thinking, Self

  "Author Brené Brown Discusses Embracing Our Ordinariness". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2011.

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• I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Paper, Week

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• Your greatest resource is your time.

  Brian Tracy

  Time, Assets, Resources

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2015

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• I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

  Craig Ferguson

  Ambition, Comfortable, Earning A Living

  "Craig Ferguson, late night's cheeky monkey" by Robert Lloyd, articles.latimes.com. February 14, 2010.

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• As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Husband, Wife, Support

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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

  Brad Henry

  Mean, Earning It, Earning A Living

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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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• Only the elites despise earning money.

  Newt Gingrich

  Despise, Earning Money, Elites

  "Race raised in US election year". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2012.

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• I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Poet, Earning A Living

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• Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

  Paul McCartney

  Dad, World, Mum

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• Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

  Diane Cilento

  Contracts, Lots Of Money

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• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Work, Home, Mean

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• Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Hollywood, Awful, Lots Of Money

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• Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

  Winona Ryder

  Real, People, Worry

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• We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Respect, Military, Safety

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• No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

  Jon Corzine

  Facts, Doe, Minimum Wage

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspiring, Money, Thinking

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• The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

  Diane Cilento

  Mother, Father, Worry

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