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

William James

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.

Doris Day

Things In Life, Important, Trying

Doris Day (2013). “The Doris Day Songbook”, p.1929, Hal Leonard Corporation

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America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

Tom Morello

Jobs, Exercise, Land

"Modern Happiness: Springsteen and the American Dream" by Craig Werner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

J. G. Holland

Life, Winning, Doe

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It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

Martha Plimpton

Unusual, Situation

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In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Nick Kroll

People, Goal, Able

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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