Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinley

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
Linda Tripp

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
Harry Golden

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
Margaret Chase Smith

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
Elizabeth Moon

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.
Frank Woolley

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
Cindy Crawford

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Mary Leakey

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
Lyman Abbott

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
Mary Landrieu

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Arthur C. Brooks

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
Jeff Miller

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Joseph Barbera

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.
Harry Reid

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
William Kingdon Clifford

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
Donald Rumsfeld