Earning Bread Quotes

#1. Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

John Stuart Mill

#2. This business of earning your daily bread is really sad and wearisome. People come up with the most pious lies about work. It's just another abominable form of idolatry, a dog licking the rod that beats it: work.

Luther Blissett

#3. While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#4. Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#5. To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

Fred Brooks

#6. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be earning bread for himself and others; and he should be yearning, too: yearning to know the unknowable.

Christopher Morley

#7. During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant of those lessons is that I still have many lessons to learn about out craft.

H.P. Oliver

#8. It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Hannah More

#9. There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

Pope Francis