Labor Quotes


Labor was the primal curse, but it was softened into mercy, and made the pledge of cheerful days, and nights without a groan.
Cowper.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
Bovee.

Nothing is denied to well directed labor, and nothing is ever to be attained without it.
Sir J.Reynolds.

Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. Yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up to no science entirely, for science is but one.
Seneca.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
Vauvenargues.

Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertion and suicide.
Mazzini.

A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
Robert Collyer.

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.
Ruskin.

Men seldom die of hard work; activity is God’s medicine. The highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.
R.S.Mac Arthur.

Labor rids us of three great evils irksomeness, vice, and poverty.
Voltaire.

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.
Daniel Webster.

From labor, health; from health, contentment springs.
Beattie.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the field, as in writing a poem.
Booker T.Washington.

Blessed is the man that has found his work. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
Carlyle.

As steady application to work is the healthiest training for every individual, so is it the best discipline of a state. Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
S.Smiles.

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.
Ruskin.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Daniel Webster.

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin promptings that assail us; from the world sirens that lure us to ill.
F.S.Osgood.

There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works.
Carlyle.

I find successful exertion is a powerful means of exhilaration, which discharges itself in good humor upon others.
Chalmers.

Nature is just toward men. It recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards.
Montesquieu.

The true epic of our times is not “arms and the man” but “tools and the man” an infinitely wider kind of epic.
Carlyle.

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