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Quotes About Labor

I have never done a stroke of work in my life.
~ Tony Sarg
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
~ Voltaire
Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
~ Walter Annenberg
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
~ Walter Scott
Do more than dream. Work.
~ William Arthur Ward
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
~ William Shatner
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
~ Hannah More
It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.
~ William Feather
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
~ Adam Smith
Good work instead of long prayers.
~ Anne Royall
There is no subsitute for hard work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.
~ Travis Hafner
It is useless work that darkens the heart.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Even with God's help there is no substitute for the hard work.
~ Valentina
We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!
~ Viktor Yushchenko
Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.
~ Warren Mundine
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
~ Will Rogers
"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.
~ Charlie Brooker
There is nothing more important than hard work.
~ Dana Bash
My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.
~ Donald Trump
There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.
~ Dov Davidoff
I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.
~ Dwight L. Moody