LABOR QUOTES III

quotations about labor

Labor quote

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor.

JAROD KINTZ

$3.33


Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

ERASMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Labor in all its variety, corporeal and mental, is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers, under the direction and control of will.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

Gold-Foil

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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

WILLIAM COWPER

Hope

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Labour, though it was at first inflicted as a curse, seems to be the gentlest of all punishments, and is fruitful of a thousand blessings.

JOHN ROGERS PITMAN

"Goodness of God", A Second Course of Sermons for the Year


Without work men are utterly undone.

NEVIL SHUTE

Ruined City


All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

attributed, A Martin Luther King Treasury

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He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Our experience tells us what is labour and recreation.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


One of the huge disadvantages of being an American is that most of the hard labor is done for us.

JOSH DAFFERN

"10 Things That Will Ruin Your 2016 If You're Not Careful", Patheos, February 17, 2016


Labor, laughing at difficulties, spans majestic rivers, carries viaducts over marshy swamps, suspends bridges over deep ravines, pierces the solid mountains with the dark tunnel, blasting rocks and filling hollows, and, while linking together all nations of the earth pities the proud fool and laughs him to scorn. He shall pass to dust, forgotten; but Labor will live forever, glorious in its conquests and monuments, and will keep organized no matter how many temporary defeats it endures.

NEWMAN HALL

"The Dignity of Labor", The Golden Treasury of Poetry and Prose


Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest,
And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Deserted Village

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The qualities of labor, like tools,
Grow brighter when used.

SUSAN H. BOGGS

"Labor", Poems


Under the regime of property, labor is not a condition, but a privilege.

PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

What is Property?


It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

LUDWIG VON MISES

Liberalism

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

LEO TOLSTOY

Anna Karenina

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The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

memorandum filed with Assembly Bill number 2222 entitled "An Act to amend chapter four hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled 'An Act in relation to labor'"


It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

JOHN RAMSAY MCCULLOCH

The Principles of Political Economy