Quotes About Labor

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Nothing works unless you do the work.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Work is love made visible.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

The land belongs to the people who work it.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.