World Owes You A Living Quotes

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

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

#3. 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

#4. We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

Cornel West

#5. I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

Zadie Smith

#6. I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

Michael Cunningham

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Nelson Mandela

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

Clint Eastwood

#11. The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we are as abstract thinking of the highest order. That means that we are all equal part snakes, monkeys, and spacemen.

David Amerland

#12. My relationship with M&S continues to be an exciting journey, from modelling to designing my online range.

Twiggy

#13. his dad seemed to love Olly and Kara and his mom a little less than he did before. And the less he seemed to love them, the more they tried to become more lovable.

Nicola Yoon

#14. Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

John Howe

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

William Weld

#16. 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

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

Harry Crews

#18. 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

#19. What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

Oprah Winfrey

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. It has always been clear that The Washington Post is a company that is set up for the purpose of protecting the long-term interests of its assets and held together as a holding company.

Jonathan Grayer

#23. They are the chosen ones
who have surrendered ...
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun!

Rumi

#24. Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.

Lee Strobel

#25. The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Adam Sandler

#26. 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