Quotes About The World Owes You A Living

#1. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

#2. Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

Mark Twain

#3. I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

John D. Rockefeller

#4. There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.

Theodore Newton Vail

#5. Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Clint Eastwood

#6. Bailey was trouble, but she was the best kind of trouble, the kind that made you want to return again and again.

T.J. Kline

#7. National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Martin Bormann

#8. Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.

Diplo

#9. I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

Robert Jordan

#10. It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

William Weld

#11. I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

John Wayne

#12. What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Harry Crews

#13. Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, 'I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,' then you're a winner.

Wolfgang Schadler

#14. The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

William Graham Sumner

#15. You are a particle in this great big universe that because of your divinity, are able to manifest greatness! You are so alive that what you think becomes reality, and what you create, well, it becomes your environment.

Yvette Lopez

#16. Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Maya Angelou

#17. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Henry Ford

#18. The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Owen D. Young

#19. Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

#20. What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#21. When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.

Michael Johnson

#22. It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

Owen Wister