Definition of Earning

Earning

of Earn

That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.

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Earning Quotations

Only the elites despise earning money.
Newt Gingrich

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
John Stuart Mill

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
John Updike

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
Wislawa Szymborska

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
Angela Merkel

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
Winona Ryder

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

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
Mitch Daniels

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Olin Miller

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
Frank Howard Clark

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
Polly Toynbee

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
Bobby Scott

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.
Robert Pattinson

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Theodore C. Sorensen

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.
Jay Roach

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
Diane Cilento

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
Kim Jong Il

Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
Florenz Ziegfeld

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.
Marcy Kaptur

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
Linford Christie

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
Diane Cilento

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
Robert A. Taft

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad Henry

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
Sam Shepard

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Earning Translations

earning in French is gagnant
earning in German is verdienend

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