“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.”
While often attributed to Churchill, a search of over 2.5 million words by and about Churchill in The Churchill Centre’s research database fails to show that Churchill ever spoke or wrote those words.
Quotes Falsely Attributed to Winston Churchill
International Churchill Society (ICS)
https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.
Variant: We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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Some sites list Norman MacEwen as the originator of the quote.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.