Quotes About Labor

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

The common denominator for success is work.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

The Gods rank work above virtues.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.