Thursday, September 13, 2012

Earning Quotes

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

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

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

Only the elites despise earning money. 
Newt Gingrich 

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

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

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

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 

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

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 

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

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

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 

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 

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

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

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. 
Bobby Scott 

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

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 

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


As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has. 
Jay Roach 

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money. 
Diane Cilento 

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about. 
Diane Cilento 

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

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 

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 

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get. 
Gary Sheffield 

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 

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 

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 

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15. 
Robert Pattinson 

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood? 
Matthew Macfadyen 

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd. 
Paul Bettany 

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country. 
Marcy Kaptur 

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get. 
Stephen Chow 

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. 
Linford Christie 

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. 
Jon Corzine 

Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work. 
Florenz Ziegfeld 

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. 
Olin Miller 

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families. 
Thaksin Shinawatra


You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money. 
Kelly Ayotte 

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. 
Sam Shepard 

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. 
Katharine Anthony 

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line. 
Bill Pascrell 

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in. 
Adam Kinzinger 

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money. 
Ann Rutherford 

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year. 
Joe Conason 

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. 
Robert A. Taft 

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year. 
Bill Weld

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