Quotes about Livelihood

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

Do we, for instance, carry on our work in our nest or do we only reside and get our mail there? Is our nest a place of consumption only or is it also a place of production?

He turned to his own place then . . . and began to ask what might be the best use of it. How might a family live there without reducing it?

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

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world.

We must begin to live fully and truly, every moment of our daily lives.

For some, a lousy day's work will get you yelled at. For farmers, it's live or die.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.