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Quotes About Livelihood

I always believe that I have a certain toughness in common with the peasants, who also do not eat so particularly well, and yet live and work on.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Business is the salt of life.
~ Voltaire
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
~ Voltaire
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood…. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
~ Trevor Nunn
Contrairement à l'agrochimie, l'agroécologie repose sur un constat qui détermine toute la problématique : le sol est un organisme vivant à part entière et non un substrat neutre destiné à recevoir des engrais de synthèse.
~ Unknown
I've gotten to make my living by my imagination. That's a lovely thing.
~ Delia Ephron
I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
~ Joe Meno
I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.
~ Jerry Lewis
It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.
~ Morten Harket
I didn't draw Angelina to be famous; I did it simply because I've always had to earn a living.
~ Helen Craig
Everyone has to earn their money one way or the other.
~ Bob Stoops
It's a huge high to be able to earn a nice living doing the thing I love most - making comedy.
~ Dan Schneider
100 days employment in a year is not enough for poor.
~ Mayawati
I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.
~ Toby Stephens
I entertain for a living, and I entertain.
~ Jennifer Aniston
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
~ Amy Lee
Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.
~ Passenger
Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.
~ Dusty Hill
I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
~ Michael Gough
Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
~ Peter York
Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
~ Narendra Modi
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
~ Polybius
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
~ Joan Baez