Labor Quotes
These are some of the best 'Labor' quotations and sayings.
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
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Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most royal thing to labor.
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As steady application to work is the healthiest training for every individual, so is it the best discipline of a state. Honorable industry alway travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
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Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
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Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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God intends no man to live in this world without working; but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
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Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
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If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity.
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Labor - the expenditure of vital effort in some form, is the measure, nay, it is the maker of values.
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Labor conquers all things.
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Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
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Labor is life; from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
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Labor is one of the great elements of society - the great substantial interest on which we all stand. Not feudal service, or predial toil, or the irksome drudgery by one race of mankind subjected, on account of their color, to another; but labor, intelligent, manly, independent, thinking and acting for itself, earning its own wages, accumulating those wages into capital, educating childhood, maintaining worship, claiming the right of the elective franchise, and helping to uphold the great fabric of the State - that is American labor; and all my sympathies are with it, and my voice, till I am dumb, will be for it.
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Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertion and suicide.
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