Quotes About Livelihood

#1. I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

Ratan Tata

#2. More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.

Ismail Serageldin

#3. My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

Andy Serkis

#4. Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.

Amitav Ghosh

#5. Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.

Robert Kennedy

#6. I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Leonard Baskin

#7. I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

Donald Lambert

#8. The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.

David Chang

#9. Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.

Mardy Grothe

#10. I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.

Hope Solo

#11. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

Alex Kozinski

#12. It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

Hesiod

#13. I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.

George Takei

#14. Every businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing unemployment; businessmen earn their livelihood by producing products and rendering services where ever they are needed.

Hans F. Sennholz

#15. Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.

Akinari Ueda

#16. My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Twyla Tharp

#17. But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Little Richard

#18. Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

Irving Wallace

#19. Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

Jahangir Khan

#20. I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Homer

#21. Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

Julia Cameron

#22. I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.

Michael Gove

#23. The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

Peter Garrett

#24. I'm unemployed, and I don't believe I'm out of the NFL because I'm gay, but if it was a reason, it can hurt their livelihood, and you don't want to take that chance.

Michael Sam

#25. Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#27. We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

Matthias Platzeck

#28. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Ayn Rand

#29. I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.

Wes Jackson

#30. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Paul Ryan

#31. For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.

Agnivesh

#32. At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#33. Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

Ben Stein

#34. It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.

Upton Sinclair

#35. Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

Everett Dirksen

#36. Life is illuminated by right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#37. No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.

David Gest

#38. People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#39. They can take away my livelihood and my food and" - here his voice hitched - "my grandson. But they can't take away my dreams." His

Jodi Picoult

#40. I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

Brendan Fraser

#41. I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Mitchell

#42. There's so many people dependent on our work for their living or their livelihood. You do something whether it works or whether it doesn't. Once you're committed and you do it, it becomes a part of your life. I wouldn't be sorry about it. I'd learn from it.

Elliott Gould

#43. It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen

#44. The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,

Andre Carson

#45. When your livelihood depends on self-imposed productivity, you either get good at it or you find yourself in mounds of debt.

Nacie Carson

#46. No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Benjamin Franklin

#47. To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Juvenal

#48. I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.

Anita Roddick

#49. Are you like all other men after all? The poor should have no justice, just as they have no food, no decent shelter, no regular livelihood? Is that how your saviour Jesus treated the poor?

Jeanette Winterson

#50. I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.

James Thurber

#51. Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

Carly Fiorina

#52. Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

Mahavira

#53. Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

Muhammad Ali

#54. I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

Kevin Powers

#55. The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.

Thomas Szasz

#56. Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

W. Somerset Maugham

#58. Wait! Wait!" The beggar called out from behind her. "I can see! I'm healthy!" Hilda smiled to herself, pleased. "You just took away my livelihood! Do you have any idea how hard it is out here for a healthy beggar?" The man sounded almost angry.

J.L. Langland

#59. My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.

Marie Helvin

#60. The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

Rafael Palmeiro

#61. If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

Trevor Nunn

#62. Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.

Daniel Kahneman

#63. Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!

Hans Christian Andersen

#64. He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

J.M. Coetzee

#65. The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

Jeff Corwin

#66. The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

Gilbert Highet

#67. Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#68. He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world.

Victor Hugo

#69. It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#70. Don't just be in the business and have fun 'cause you're a kid. You've gotta learn; this is your livelihood.

Tameka Cottle

#71. Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Stephanie Mills

#72. Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days ... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Nas

#73. They followed the middle way of Muhammad, which included marriage, a socially useful livelihood, and a life "in the world but not of it.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#74. Is it not necessary for each to know for oneself what is the right means of livelihood? If we were avaricious, envious, seeking power, then our means of livelihood will correspond to our inward demands and so produce a world of competition, ruthlessness, oppression, ultimately ending in war.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#75. And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

Tommy Cooper

#76. Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.

Umar

#77. The essential of the guild-idea is that [of] men pursuing the same form of activity, but only in cooperation limited to the end of preserving the economic freedom-that is the property and livelihood-of each member of the guild.

Hilaire Belloc

#78. It is not enough to raise consciousness. One must lower the spirit into the earth to embody a change in things as basic as food, shelter, and livelihood.

William Irwin Thompson

#79. Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence.

Ayn Rand

#80. Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

Mark Udall

#81. The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.

Graham Swift

#82. The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.

Helen Caldicott

#83. Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Narendra Modi

#84. Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

Richard Rhodes

#85. We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Joan Baez

#86. Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

Tonya Harding

#87. Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

John Lancaster Spalding

#88. I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy ... The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.

Chaim Weizmann

#90. Our veterans know the meaning of service better than anyone else and they aren't about to quit working when they come home. The best reward we can provide our vets for their service isn't a medal or a check; it's a livelihood and a means of supporting themselves and their families.

Mitt Romney

#91. I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

Eddie Van Halen

#92. Redundancy is like a plug being pulled out in a bath tub. Everything goes down the drain, your livelihood, your dreams, your car, your house, and your family.

Tania Gardana

#93. In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same time, many others are struggling t get by in the face of inequality, corruption, and injustice.

Dalai Lama XIV

#94. High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

Major Owens

#95. It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose livelihood depends on beating the dawn, convincing himself that what looks like night is actually morning.

Julia Glass

#96. The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

#97. Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.

Narendra Modi

#98. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Bertrand Russell

#99. I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

Barry Humphries

#100. Mumbai is a city of stark contrasts - providing opportunities to millionaires to pursue their riches and millions of poor to pursue livelihood. For many, Mumbai is a city where their dreams begin; for many others, it marks and end of a dream.

Duvvuri Subbarao