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Quotes About Labor

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
~ Charles Bukowski
New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
~ Carol Bellamy
There is no substitute for work.
~ Vince Lombardi
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation
~ Mother Jones
There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.
~ Bob Black
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.
~ Richard L. Evans
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
~ William Osler
There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done
~ Martti Ahtisaari
I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.
~ Bill Burr
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
~ Karl Marx
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.
~ Louise Erickson
And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.
~ Bill Murray
For too many, to work means having less income.
~ Kim Campbell
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
~ Gloria Steinem
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
~ Pete Hamill
Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.
~ Rick Pitino
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
~ John Burroughs
Labor is the true standard of value.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.
~ John Henry Patterson
I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer