Quotes about Good Living

Good Living is Good Thinking. Votes: 3

I make a good living doing what I do. Votes: 2

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste. Votes: 2

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. Votes: 2

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress. Votes: 2

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living. Votes: 2

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction. Votes: 2

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle. Votes: 2

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?' Votes: 2

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth. Votes: 2

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free. Votes: 2

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays. Votes: 2

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write. Votes: 2

My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity. Votes: 2

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do. Votes: 2

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things. Votes: 2

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly. Votes: 2

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying. Votes: 2

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive. Votes: 2

My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free. Votes: 2

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. Votes: 2

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood. Votes: 2

I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working. Votes: 2

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. Votes: 2

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time. Votes: 2

I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff. Votes: 2

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world. Votes: 2

Good farming, clear thinking, right living. Votes: 0

How good is life, the mere living! Votes: 0

I am always living very good moments. Votes: 0

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. Votes: 0

Yeah, it's whatever. You know, feeling good, living better. Votes: 0

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world. Votes: 0

The good man is the friend of all living things. Votes: 0

Good music can act as a guide to good living. Votes: 0

Good music can act as a guide to good living. Votes: 0

A good half of the art of living is resilience. Votes: 0

You can make a good living while serving a greater good. Votes: 0

The essence of right living is to do good to others. Votes: 0

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking. Votes: 0

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil. Votes: 0

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Votes: 0

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? Votes: 0

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. Votes: 0

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. Votes: 0

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Votes: 0

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying. Votes: 0

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living. Votes: 0

Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living. Votes: 0

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. Votes: 0

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving. Votes: 0

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude. Votes: 0

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture. Votes: 0

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth. Votes: 0

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. Votes: 0

The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up. Votes: 0

A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living Votes: 0

I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time. Votes: 0

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday. Votes: 0

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living. Votes: 0

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy. Votes: 0

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. Votes: 0

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. Votes: 0

It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. Votes: 0

The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living. Votes: 0

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence Votes: 0

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. Votes: 0

I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me. Votes: 0

Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying? Votes: 0

Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good. Votes: 0

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer. Votes: 0

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing. Votes: 0

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it. Votes: 0

There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives. Votes: 0

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. Votes: 0

Love? It's good. But, as you go on living, it changes. After time passes, all gets forgotten. Votes: 0

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now. Votes: 0

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good. Votes: 0

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them. Votes: 0

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living. Votes: 0

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple. Votes: 0

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living. Votes: 0

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that. Votes: 0

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. Votes: 0

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. Votes: 0

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. Votes: 0

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down. Votes: 0

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great. Votes: 0

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion. Votes: 0

Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living. Votes: 0

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order. Votes: 0

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell. Votes: 0

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one. Votes: 0

Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living. Votes: 0

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good. Votes: 0

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. Votes: 0

All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends. Votes: 0

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit? Votes: 0

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. Votes: 0

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward. Votes: 0

Nature is not kind; it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing~? Votes: 0

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces? Votes: 0

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family. Votes: 0

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune. Votes: 0

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks. Votes: 0

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company. Votes: 0

A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living." Votes: 0

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it. Votes: 0

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. Votes: 0

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. Votes: 0

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. Votes: 0

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. Votes: 0

Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win. Votes: 0

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo. Votes: 0

I believe there's 31 flavors to be tasted. . . I'm just living my life. I don't want to be your kind of good. Votes: 0

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. Votes: 0

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust. Votes: 0

No matter how good or bad your state of living currently is, better chapters are destined to unfold in your life. Votes: 0

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement. Votes: 0

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. Votes: 0

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. Votes: 0

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die Votes: 0

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living. Votes: 0

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. Votes: 0

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. Votes: 0

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam. Votes: 0

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. Votes: 0

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things. Votes: 0

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually. Votes: 0

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being. Votes: 0

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death. Votes: 0

Saddam Hussein is dead, and Osama bin Laden is dead. If you're Moammar Gadhafi, living in exile is starting to sound really good. Votes: 0

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead. Votes: 0

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. Votes: 0

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them. Votes: 0

Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly. Votes: 0

The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them? Votes: 0

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. Votes: 0

I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways. Votes: 0

There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way. Votes: 0

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle. Votes: 0

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it. Votes: 0

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Votes: 0

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. Votes: 0

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. Votes: 0

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. Votes: 0

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible. Votes: 0

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people. Votes: 0

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right. Votes: 0

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living. Votes: 0

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living. Votes: 0

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer. Votes: 0

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Votes: 0

I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living. Votes: 0

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time. Votes: 0

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. Votes: 0

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes. Votes: 0

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce. Votes: 0

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin. Votes: 0

And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it. Votes: 0

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying. Votes: 0

To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God. Votes: 0

That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you. Votes: 0

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living. Votes: 0

I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with. Votes: 0

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living. Votes: 0

I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all. Votes: 0

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living. Votes: 0

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied. Votes: 0

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty. Votes: 0

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. Votes: 0

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily. Votes: 0

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now. Votes: 0

Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty? Votes: 0

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. Votes: 0

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living "“ very good things for anyone to be interested in. Votes: 0

My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first. Votes: 0

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love. Votes: 0

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages. Votes: 0

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety. Votes: 0

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Votes: 0

If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace! Votes: 0

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. Votes: 0

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. Votes: 0

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days. Votes: 0

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life. Votes: 0

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists. Votes: 0

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good. Votes: 0

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions. Votes: 0

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune. Votes: 0

I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place. Votes: 0

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin. Votes: 0

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.' Votes: 0

Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt. Votes: 0

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere. Votes: 0

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. Votes: 0

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy. Votes: 0

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. Votes: 0

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something. Votes: 0

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. Votes: 0

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home. Votes: 0

I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and what I do for a living. Votes: 0

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys. Votes: 0

Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is. Votes: 0

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. Votes: 0

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. Votes: 0

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul. Votes: 0

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active. Votes: 0

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing? Votes: 0

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. Votes: 0

He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking. Votes: 0

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God. Votes: 0

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living. Votes: 0

Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas. Votes: 0

My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but its a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity. Votes: 0

I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this. Votes: 0