Quotes About Labor

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

All true work is sacred.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?