Making a living Quotes

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

— William Barclay

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

— Pico Iyer

I do feel incredibly lucky to be making a living at things I love doing.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

— Jim Harrison

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

— Lewis Capaldi

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

— Anonymous

Ive learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

— Maya Angelou

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

— John Wooden

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of…

— Elise M. Boulding

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to…

— Lewis Capaldi

“My only problem was making a living. How to make a living without giving up the freedom was not an easy trick.”

— Lee Child

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could…

— William H. Macy

Lawyers would have a hard time making a living if people behaved themselves and kept their promises

— Thomas Fuller

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

— Ogden Nash

Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!

— Om Malik

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape…

— Alicia Garza

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't…

— David McCullough

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about…

— Anonymous

Living out my dreams of making a living in the arts and sharing the gift of laughter is made that much sweeter…

— Janelle James

“The principle of my school is quite different. In the other schools, techniques are displayed like merchandise adorned with colors and flowers,…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in…

— James Rouse

And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk…

— Spencer W. Kimball

It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about…

— Ziggy Marley

I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free…

— Julie Dillon

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing…

— John Piper

The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to…

— Michael Chabon

“More than ever, we have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility. We excel…

— Craig Gross

I just always wanted a platform. In the past, I always dreamed of having a following and a fan base - you…

— G-Eazy

Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to…

— Frank Bettger

We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures.…

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom…

— Tom Morello

“Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance,…

— Hannah Arendt

“How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a “favorite failure” of yours? Many,…

— Timothy Ferriss

“Novels and stories are renderings of life; they cannot only keep us company, but admonish us, point us in new directions, or…

— Robert Coles, M.D

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better…

— Anonymous

“Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it. Don’t just fit in; make it a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“It wasn’t about me anymore. I had a child. A husband who needed me to be there for him in the midst…

— Ree Drummond

“I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. But…

— John Fowles

“I don't know for sure what ever became of Hatsumomo. A few years after the war, I heard she was making a…

— Arthur Golden