You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. — Margaret Fuller
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. — Dolly Parton
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead. — John Mills
Short Making A Living Quotes
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. — Barbara Kruger
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Working gets in the way of living. — Omar Sharif
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. — Woodrow Wilson
Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well. — Jim Rohn
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it. — Napoleon Hill
I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby. — Dick Trickle
You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle. — Isaac Mashman
For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. — Paul Clitheroe
Top 10 Making A Living Quotes
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for. — Dolores Huerta
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. — Nelson Mandela
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt
Making A Living Image Quotes
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. — Jim Harrison
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness. — Kalidasa
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. — David Lloyd George
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Positive Quotes
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. — Merle Haggard
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. — Robert Downey, Jr.
Dont handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit. — The Notorious B.I.G.
We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin. — Aimee Semple McPherson
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. — Dale Carnegie
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. — John Piper
Work To Make A Living Quotes
Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world. — Linus Pauling
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. — James Cagney
I’m always asking my clients this question when they start out, How can you use what you have to make a difference in the lives of other people? Because if you start there, everything else will work out. — Jay Shetty
Like if like a cup of tea... it's all in how you make it.
We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live. — Larry Crabb
It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. — Theodore Zeldin
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work. — Tom Kundig
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
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives. — John Piper
I can't envision a world where I'm not making YouTube videos. In a perfect world, I live and breathe this, working 12- to 15-hour days until I die. — MrBeast
Life Is What You Create Quotes
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance. — Pina Bausch
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin — Janis Joplin
We are edging closer toward a dramatically extended healthspan — where 100 is the new 60. What will you create, where will you explore, and how will you spend your time if you are able to add an additional 40 healthy years to your life? — Peter Diamandis
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment. — Eckhart Tolle
Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do. — Leonard Sweet
One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life. — Iyanla Vanzant
So many times I wish I could've lived my life without making mistakes. In reality, a path like that doesn't exist. We fall. We get lost. We make mistakes. We get up and Live.
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live. — Oscar Niemeyer
What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell. — Tony Robbins
Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess. — Gary Zukav
Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for. — Silken Laumann
Earning A Living Quotes
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. — Albert Einstein
I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me. — Joel S. Goldsmith
You're alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. — Olin Miller
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. — Richard Miller
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. — Brian Tracy
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge. — Jackson Pollock
A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it. — Betty Ford
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. — Donald Knuth
All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it. — Katherine Anne Porter
Working For A Living Quotes
Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. — Nick Saban
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. — Maria Montessori
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. — Eugene V. Debs
I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living. — Lucky Luciano
Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. — Ivan Pavlov
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom. — Bell Hooks
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
I have more money than I need. I don’t need to work for a living. I do this because I love what I do. — Bill Ackman
I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee. — Bruce Vilanch
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential. — Ellen Goodman
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. — Will Smith
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. — Albert Einstein
Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is. — Dave Ramsey
Someone who can hold on to his money is worth more than the one who earns it. — Yiddish Proverbs
A fool may earn money, but it takes a wise man to keep it. — Scottish Proverbs
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. — Thomas Sowell
Never spend your money before you have earned it. — Thomas Jefferson
The criminal part of fiat money is that you have to earn it twice. Fiat removes the ability to save and forces everybody to become an investor, or more accurately, a gambler. — Saifedean Ammous
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. — Arthur C. Brooks
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. — Woodrow Wilson
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. — Booker T. Washington
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. — Enid Bagnold
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. — Oswald Chambers
Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God. — Ellen G. White
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give. — David Livingstone
Student debt is crushing the lives of millions of Americans. How does it happen that we can get a home mortgage or purchase a car with interest rates half of that being paid for student loans? We must make higher education affordable for all. We must substantially lower interest rates on student loans. This must be a national priority. — Bernie Sanders
Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man — Maynard James Keenan
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. — John Lennon
If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased. — Maya Angelou
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