“The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Edith Windsor (1929–2017) American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM
On coming to the realization that she was a lesbian (as quoted in “Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer: 'A love affair that just kept on and on and on'” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/edith-windsor-thea-spyer-doma) (The Guardian; 2013 Jun 26)
“The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.”
Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693) Japanese writer
Book I, ch. 1.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.”
Bill Mauldin (1921–2003) American editorial cartoonist
The Brass Ring (1971)
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Letter to California student E. Holzapfel (March 1951) Einstein Archive 59-1013, p. 57
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
“Having the foresight to plan to earn a living, is half of the peace and leisure in life.”
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 204
General Quotes
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau book Confessions
Variant translation: It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, II
Source: Confessions
“You can not buy health, you must earn it through healthy living.”
Joel Fuhrman (1953) Family Physician and author
From the homepage of his official website DrFuhrman.com https://web.archive.org/web/20170831072629/https://www.drfuhrman.com/ (August 2017).