Quotes About Earning A Living

#1. In the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

Sally Helgesen

#2. A practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

Mortimer J. Adler

#3. The problem was that whenever I considered "earning a living," I thought mostly about the "earning" and nothing about the "living.

James Martin

#4. There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

Bill Cosby

#5. I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Wislawa Szymborska

#6. I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#7. Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

Nathaniel Branden

#8. My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

Patricia A. Woertz

#9. There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they?

Michael Gambon

#10. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

Anita Loos

#11. I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Craig Ferguson

#12. I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

Marcia Wallace

#13. There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

Gertrude Stein

#14. Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man's reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why?

John D. MacDonald

#15. Music is a part of life. It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobby, nor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning a living. It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself.

H. Ernest Hunt

#16. It is getting toward dinner time and people are straggling back to their rooms with that weary, dejected air which comes from earning a living honestly.

Henry Miller

#17. Take. Her designs would be more refined than Vera's, because she did not intend to satisfy popular taste and create a brand, but to create for pleasure. The possibility of earning a living never occurred to her. She wasn't interested in scarves for ten dollars, or sheets

Isabel Allende

#18. If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

Jean Shrimpton

#19. Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

Greg Giraldo

#20. Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

Peter Abrahams

#21. I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Steven Millhauser

#22. I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

Pierre Soulages

#23. Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

Winona Ryder

#24. Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

Janet Malcolm

#25. Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Robert Kennedy

#26. The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Tertullian

#27. Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#28. The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#29. Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

Bertrand Russell

#30. Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Olin Miller

#31. I have plenty of enemies ... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

Arnold Friberg

#32. Work isn't only earning a living; work gives us a sense of purpose and worth and opportunities for companionship.

Billy Graham

#33. Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

#34. It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#35. As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

John Williams

#36. We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#37. Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#38. I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.

Shane Filan

#39. The world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

Marie Corelli

#40. Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

Brad Henry

#41. Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.

Tom Hodgkinson

#42. Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

Norman Cousins

#43. 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

#44. We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna

Sister Souljah

#45. In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

W. H. Auden

#46. Don't find work, find an interest and do it with love. If you can earn a living doing something interesting, then you will never have to work.

Debasish Mridha

#47. When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

Isabel Allende

#48. The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Ihara Saikaku

#49. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Cormac McCarthy

#50. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Maya Angelou

#51. And above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books.

Marquis De Sade

#52. My idea of working for a living is not going to office and earning a salary. It is to build a log house and catch my own fish and till some soil.

Girish Kohli