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Quotes About Livelihood

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.
~ Thomas Menino
We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
~ Timothy Keller
So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.
~ Tippi Hedren
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.
~ W. S. Merwin
The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.
~ YVOR WINTERS
Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Having a job does not mean living
~ Sunday Adelaja
A job shouldn't be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance
~ Sunday Adelaja
Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work
~ Sunday Adelaja
We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living
~ Sunday Adelaja
It is good to work for your living.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.
~ David Sanborn
It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.
~ Bob Saget
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
~ Rufus Wainwright
It's regrettable that some people have to make a substantial living at others' expense.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
I don't compare myself with the late NTR, but I want to give livelihood to people. He was pro-poor, and people want me to substitute him and bring a change, and I will do that.
~ Chiranjeevi
When I was not a body guard, I was a substitute teacher during the day, I was bounced clubs at night and yeah, I was working.
~ Tyrus
We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one.
~ Unknown
Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.
~ Unknown
When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
~ Will Rogers
A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Now there was silence. For hours on end the valley would be completely still and empty, and we became curious. What was everybody doing? Faustin, we knew, traveled around the neighboring farms as a visiting slaughterer, slitting the throats and breaking the necks of rabbits and ducks and pigs and geese so that they could be turned into terrines and hams and confits.
~ Peter Mayle
I am made out of water. You wouldn't know it, because I have it bound in. My friends are made out of water, too. All of them. The problem for us is that not only do we have to walk around without being absorbed by the ground but we also have to earn our livings. Actually, there's even a greater problem. We don't feel at home anywhere we go. Why is that?
~ Philip K. Dick
Elijah's problem, in Danny's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a living. Danny's problem, in Elijah's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a life.
~ David Levithan