Livelihood Quotes
112 quotes by 98 authors
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At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of…
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where…
— Clara Zetkin
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy…
— Florenz Ziegfeld
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If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.
— Ueda Akinari
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I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most…
— Macklemore
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We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning…
— Eddie Van Halen
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I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most…
— Kevin Powers
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Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the…
— Kofi Annan
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Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an…
— Everett Dirksen
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Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect…
— Brendan Fraser
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Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.
— Greg Bryk
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their…
— Honore de Balzac
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If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not…
— George Orwell
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We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.
— Matthias Platzeck
Who Wrote These Livelihood Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 112 Livelihood Quotes, led by these top contributors: