Dallas Willard Quotes

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

You get what you're good enough to take.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

No one can take away what I've done in this game. Everything I've done, I've earned it so far.

I think we've been the selection just because I think I've earned it by doing a lot of things for the district.

There are some people who feel that they deserve a particular award or recognition, but I don't fall in that category.

You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.

If I could turn it on like a faucet then I think it would be kind of unearned. I feel like you need to struggle a little bit to make anything good.

You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.

I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.