Earning Quotes

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager

Happy, Lazy, Ungrateful

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich

Money, Great, Rich

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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley

Life, Good, Learning

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley

Life, Money, Down

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy

Time, Greatest, Ability

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
Lillian Gish

Life, Learning, Happy

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Living, Difficult, Thinks

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney

Dad, Talk, Tell

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Means, Might

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
Frank A. Clark

Good, Money, Folks

Only the elites despise earning money.
Newt Gingrich

Money, Despise, Elites

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
Tertullian

Live, Living, Complaint

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Respect, Others, Short

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad Henry

Life, Education, Great

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.
William Hague

Nation, Taxes, Higher

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
John Updike

Money, Men, Children

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

Basketball, Year, Direction

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
Kim Jong Il

Struggle, Saying, Cannot

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben

Saying, Book, Writing

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.
Craig Ferguson

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman

Marriage, Work, Family

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
Angela Merkel

Life, Politics, Money

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
Mitch Daniels

Rather, Year, Step

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
Wislawa Szymborska

Living, Rather, Started

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.
Michelle Malkin

Crisis, Mean, Growth

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.
Colin Farrell

Home, End, Laugh

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
Warren Farrell

Work, Women, Technology

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
Winona Ryder

Money, Important, Real

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
Keira Knightley

Thinking, Remember, Living

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
Polly Toynbee

Happiness, Money, Poor

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