What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
If you don't respect nothin' else, you will respect this hustle.
I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.
I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.
Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.
Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had it easy...
But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
Whatever you wind up doing in life, things aren't handed to you.
I've earned everything I have; that's the attitude.
The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.
Nothing in this league was ever given to me.
You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything.
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.
I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
I'm sorry, but I am not interested in getting cheap popularity. I've earned my success through sincere hard work. And that's the only success I want.
When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.
