Quotes About Labor

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

Without work men are utterly undone

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

The work of creation is never without travail.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

When men are employed they are best contented.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.