Livelihood Quotes

112 quotes by 98 authors

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every… — George Bernard Shaw
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence… — Chaim Weizmann
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's… — Thomas More
The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. — Ayn Rand
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. — Nelson Algren
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and… — Ismail Serageldin
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best… — Gilbert Highet
Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity. — Umar
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. — Leonard Baskin
Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any… — David Sarnoff
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you… — Nhat Hanh
We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a… — Agnivesh
There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of… — Sam Keen
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state. — Benjamin Franklin
My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with… — Anita Roddick
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by… — Heinrich Heine
And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living… — Tommy Cooper
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over… — Thurman Arnold
Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood. — Lil' Kim
Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top. — Jahangir

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