Earning A Living Quotes

“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

“I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.”
― Jill Telford

“I think that this is ultimately why we want money: It's to create a world that you prefer.

To create an environment, to create an experience that you enjoy more. It might be shoes - it might be charity. By giving to charity, I'm just buying the world I would prefer. Because that world gives you more joy, more happiness. And it's a more stable world for the future and for my children.”
― Hank Green

“Every ever you are in the world, you have to work to earn a living.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

“That’s the problem with people who don’t have to work for things. They don’t know how to work for things.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“A lot of people work to earn. And, while at it, they forget to learn.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“One of the greatest rewards of success is knowing that the hard-fought victory was earned.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“I hold doors open for people and tip twenty percent. I would never be rude or condescend to anyone in the service industry trying to support a family on minimum wage. I don’t like these bullies running around treating decent people like dispensable cogs. These guys take a waiter or a schoolteacher and stand on their necks until they’re nearly suffocated.”
― Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

“When you focus on earning a living, you are not living. To live fully, you need to do what makes you come alive. Pause and reflect on this. It makes a lot of sense.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“The do-nothing, get-everything plan isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Earn it!”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“Nowadays people say everyone should earn a living. I think this is pointless. I've always thought it enough if I can get through a day without starving.”
― Kosho Uchiyama, The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo