Top 100 Work For A Living Quotes
#1. Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey ... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.
Gene Simmons
#2. Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.
Kenya Moore
#3. Well, that's not true. I need to work for a living."
"No, that's not true. You think you need to work like this because that's what you've been told. That is merely an idea put into your head. In actuality, you can walk away any time you want.
Dylan Callens
#4. I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.
Harry Benson
#5. I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
Joe Torre
#6. Do not give to persons able to work for a living," declared a critic of the traditional paternalistic charity in 1807. "Do not support widows who refuse to put out their children. Do not let the means of support be made easier to one who does not work than to those who do.
Gordon S. Wood
#7. You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.
John Larroquette
#8. But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.'
Howie Carr
#9. I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.
Stephen Fry
#10. If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
Barbara Boxer
#11. I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working. Because I have to earn income. I have three kids in college. And three in school. And I have a little girl that has a lot of special needs. So I've got to work for a living. I was working already.
Rick Santorum
#12. Did you ever stop to think that a dog is the only animal that doesn't have to work for a living? A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.
Dale Carnegie
#13. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland
#14. He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
Theodor Reik
#15. I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream
a dream yet unfulfilled.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. Dangerously close to having to work for a living.
Rosen Topuzov
#17. The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#18. People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.
Ann Richards
#19. In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.
P. J. O'Rourke
#20. If you you work for a living why kill yourself working
Thabiso Monkoe
#21. I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living
John Flanagan
#22. I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.
Roger Moore
#23. Let me sum it up for ya: We got some people who work for a living, and we got some people who vote for a living.
Hank Williams Jr.
#24. Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now.
Michael Irvin
#25. This figure shows the cash flows in a world with only two people. I labeled them creditor and debtor. In reality, there are many creditors and debtors (see text for details). It also explains why the "rich get richer" and why those who are in debt and work for a living never seem to "get ahead.
Jacob Lund Fisker
#26. I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.
John Caudwell
#27. The creator is not puritan. A creature need not work for a living; creatures may simply steal and suck and be blessed for all that with a share - an enormous share - of the sunlight and air.
Annie Dillard
#28. They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other ...
S.E. Hinton
#29. We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.
Julianne Moore
#30. Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.
Jerry Seinfeld
#31. Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.
Daniel Handler
#32. If you work for a living why work yourself to death
Thabiso Monkoe
#33. The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.
Len Morgan
#34. I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
Tamara Ecclestone
#35. So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress.
John Murray
#36. Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn't mean I don't have to work for a living.
Scott Eastwood
#37. I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
Jason Clarke
#38. If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
Eli Wallach
#39. college-educated workers are more likely to enjoy what they do for a living, and identify closely with their careers, so work long hours willingly.
Anonymous
#40. The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
Sandra Cisneros
#41. You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
Douglas Coupland
#42. My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life.
Doris Betts
#43. 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
#44. Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#45. It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#46. AT THE CENTER of Wilson's work was an attempt to solve a deceptively simple puzzle: what makes life worth living when we are old and frail and unable to care for ourselves?
Atul Gawande
#47. For me to make a living acting silly for as long as I can get away with it, I think the most viable way to make that happen is to evolve into more traditional comedy. I've really been putting in the work.
Steve-O
#48. My job is never boring. It's always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I'm the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living.
Jewel Staite
#49. The indignation was too sharp and raw for a mere piece of professional gossip; each man took it as a personal insult; each felt himself qualified to alter, advise and improve the work of any man living.
Ayn Rand
#50. He had the "Love-sonnets from the Portuguese" in mind as he wrote, and he wrote under the best conditions for great work, at a climacteric of living, in the throes of his own sweet love-madness. The
Jack London
#51. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.
Rosalind Lauer
#52. Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
Ellen DeGeneres
#53. When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him; they're concerned about their daughter's tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#54. To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.
Manoj Arora
#55. because in a sense, our work was our life. It defined who we were, it wasn't just a job we did for a living, and I needed to hold on to that for as long as I could.
Lynsey Addario
#57. There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
Albert Camus
#58. I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver
#59. The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
George Orwell
#60. All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
Judith Anderson
#61. I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.
Linda Ronstadt
#62. If I have to work in McDonalds, fine - I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that?
Juliana Hatfield
#63. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
John Henry Newman
#64. It frightens me that when I'm writing I seem to have some awful second sight, or something like it, an intuition of some kind; a kind of intelligence is at work that is much too painful to use in ordinary life; one couldn't live at all if one used it for living.
Doris Lessing
#65. It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.
Frederick Lenz
#66. There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.
Sigourney Weaver
#67. The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
Ziggy Marley
#68. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
John Stuart Mill
#69. With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.
Jennifer Lopez
#70. [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.
Elisabeth Elliot
#71. What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Orison Swett Marden
#72. Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work. My introverted nature requires solitary sanctuary, to breathe. My internal batteries need time to recharge if i am to give from a place of abundance.
Jaeda DeWalt
#73. I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#74. In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.
Bernie Sanders
#75. All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#76. My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
Margaret Mahy
#77. I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David Bowie
#78. We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living
Sunday Adelaja
#79. I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I'm so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.
Betty White
#81. Article XXVIII: Every newborn shall be sincerely welcomed and cared for until maturity. Article XXIX: Every adult who needs it shall be given meaningful work to do, at a living wage.
Kurt Vonnegut
#82. And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
Simone De Beauvoir
#83. Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
William Graham Sumner
#84. No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
Bif Naked
#85. A hydrogen bomb, for me, was puny compared to the Big Bang - the creation of the universe. That's what I really wanted to work on - the nature of the universe itself, and that's what I do for a living.
Michio Kaku
#86. Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#87. Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.
Nathan Glazer
#88. There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises ...
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays
Toni Morrison
#89. Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
Dale T. Mortensen
#90. I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.
Anna Paquin
#91. Work isn't only earning a living; work gives us a sense of purpose and worth and opportunities for companionship.
Billy Graham
#92. 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
#93. How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren't going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living. Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.
Richard Dean Anderson
#95. I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
Evan Hunter
#96. Professional' does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#97. Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.
Bob Sheppard
#98. Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#99. To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.
Jimmy Carter
#100. I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
Macaulay Culkin
