“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.”
"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.”
Extensive research of writings by and about Churchill at the Churchill Centre http://www.winstonchurchill.org fails to indicate that Churchill ever spoke or wrote those words.
Some sites list Norman MacEwen as the originator of the quote.
Misattributed
Variant: We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Variant: We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
“We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.”
Vol. I, ch. 14.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
“What we live, makes us what we are.”
Original: (it) Ciò che viviamo, ci rende ciò che siamo.
Source: prevale.net
“It is not what we get. But who we become, what
we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.”
The Country Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.
