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Quotes About Labor

As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.
~ Evan Thomas
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
~ Danilo Dolci
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
The pain goes away, but your work always remains.
~ Masahiro Sakurai
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
~ William Faulkner
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
~ James A. Garfield
With sociology one can do anything and call it work
~ Malcolm Bradbury
We work super hard to not have to work
~ Mike Dirnt
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
~ Abraham Lincoln
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
~ Eugene V. Debs
He who does not work shall not eat
~ Vladimir Lenin
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.
~ Ted Williams
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Without labor nothing prospers.
~ Sophocles
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
~ Horace
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
~ Lenny Bruce
I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.
~ Clarence Thomas
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
~ Milton Friedman
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
~ Voltaire