“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
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“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.
Rock and Roll Rebel.
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)
Could you be loved
Uprising (1979)
Variant: I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be,
so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.
Context: Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be,
so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.