Making A Living Quotes

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

  John Wooden

  Life, Ucla, Career Change

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.24, Regal

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• If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Inspirational, Adversity, Caring

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.186

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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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• I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Grace, Making A Difference, Charity

  "Personal Quote/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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  Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Courage, Time

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• Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.

  Tom Petty

  Blessed, What You Love

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• Work is making a living out of being bored.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Bored, Being Bored

  "Is Karl Lagerfeld Retiring?" by Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 2016.

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• I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Lost, Made

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• Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

  James Wood-Mason

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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

  William Barclay

  Inspirational Life, Men, Forget

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• Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

  John Wooden

  Balance, Busy, Forget

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• I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Bad Ass

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• I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Jazz, Fortunate

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• Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Enjoy

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

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• I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Children, Biblical, Thinking

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• Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

  E. B. White

  Country, Jobs, Tasks

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