Quotes about Earnings
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
— Amy Grant
When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money.
— James Dobson
And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
— Genesis 30:28
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
— Anonymous
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
— Henry Ward Beecher
She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.
— Proverbs 31:16
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.
— Jim Rohn
Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can.
— John Wesley
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.
— Mark Twain
When he returned from procuring his kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned.
— Luke 19:15
One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.
— Ronald Reagan
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
— Theodore Roosevelt