Top 100 Good Living Sayings
#1. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.
Donnie Fritts
#2. I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.
Barry Eisler
#3. When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.
Ivar Giaever
#4. Let's face it - there are a million guys who fulfill the basics: He makes you laugh, earns a good living, smart, blah, blah, blah, but, for me, it's the chemistry that matters.
Jen Schefft
#5. My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.
Dale Murphy
#6. I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all.
Landon Donovan
#7. I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Donald Trump
#9. In a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.
Margaret Deland
#10. We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.
Charles Fishman
#11. Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.
Nick Cohen
#12. The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
Millicent Fenwick
#13. I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.
Joshua Bell
#14. I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'
Tyra Banks
#16. The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living.
Charles Kettering
#17. I had some pretty lucky and good living situations; thankfully I never got forced out of an apartment. A lot of my friends got evicted or pushed out and couldn't afford a new place. For me, I wanted more space to set up a home studio, but there was no way to afford that.
Mikal Cronin
#19. I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
Ruth Simmons
#20. Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.
Zig Ziglar
#21. Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#22. My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.
Jenn Proske
#23. My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.
Julianne Moore
#24. Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.
Daniel Tosh
#25. I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
James Hetfield
#26. I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
Idina Menzel
#27. One thing about change hasn't changed: it still fascinates some people, frightens others, and provides a good living for a prophetic minority.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#28. The national characteristics ... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.
Lawrence Durrell
#29. Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
Dimebag Darrell
#30. You can make a good living while serving a greater good.
Ivan Misner
#31. I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
Kelly Lynch
#32. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
#33. I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.
Paul Haggis
#34. I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could ... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.
David Soul
#35. I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.
Eric Stoltz
#37. Good music can act as a guide to good living.
Kay Larson
#38. Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.
Paula Gunn Allen
#39. Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
Napoleon Hill
#40. I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.
Chuck Knox
#41. I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make a good living at doing it, and not doing the traditional sort of mainstream fare.
Jonathan Hickman
#42. The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.
Mike Svob
#43. To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.
David Canary
#44. Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
Amy Jo Johnson
#45. If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.
Katherine Paterson
#46. Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast,
it's no good living in the fucking past.
Mark Jackman
#47. High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their twenties believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living.11
Stephanie Coontz
#48. A man who can tell a good story can make a good living as a broker.
Michael Lewis
#49. Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John Darnielle
#50. The "keep quiet and look good" living is always easier than heart-baring, mistake-admitting, choosing-humility life offered in Jesus.
Kara Tippetts
#51. Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
Bruce Coville
#52. A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living."
Henny Youngman
#53. Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.
Hunter S. Thompson
#54. Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good.
Brandon Jacobs
#55. Yeah, it's whatever. You know, feeling good, living better.
Drake
#56. My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
Ruth Reichl
#57. I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.
Anthony Hopkins
#58. I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
Francois Hollande
#59. ...I'm going to stop worrying about what might happen to us. With the Lord's help we've been able to make ourselves a good living ever since Father died, and the fortune that has befallen us here in Medford certainly doesn't lead me to believe we will be abandoned now.
Ralph Moody
#60. I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
Robyn Hitchcock
#61. The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.
David Abrahamsen
#62. There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a very good living in advertising by exercising this capability, lyric poetry was left to untalented screwballs who had to shriek for attention and compete by eccentricity.
C.M. Kornbluth
#63. It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
Alain De Botton
#64. When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
Adrienne Barbeau
#65. At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
Norman Lamm
#68. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
George Eliot
#69. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.
Bruce Dern
#70. Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.
Jonny Lee Miller
#72. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Denis Diderot
#73. I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.
Martha Plimpton
#74. Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.
Mindy Starns Clark
#75. At the end of the day it's not 'what looks good' that matters, it's 'what feels' good.
Maddy Malhotra
#76. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
Robert A. Heinlein
#77. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
#78. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.
James W. Loewen
#79. Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
Marci Shimoff
#80. Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world."
Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.
Cinda Williams Chima
#81. What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!
Ken Puddicombe
#82. Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.
Martin Luther
#83. Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.
Rick Mercer
#84. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#85. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#86. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.
Natalie Taylor
#87. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.
Rene Russo
#88. If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
Tryon Edwards
#89. The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
#91. Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the time for you to fill your basket with the fruits of your labor. (Savings). Prepare your soil for new seeds. (Investments)
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#92. The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.
Thomas S. Monson
#93. What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.
Terry Brooks
#94. First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
Meek Mill
#95. Oh, hang it all! what's the good - I mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.
E. M. Forster
#96. Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.
Malcolm Forbes
#97. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.
Robertson Davies
#98. I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
Samm Levine
#99. I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.
Chuck Feeney
#100. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
Deirdre O'Kane
