Quotes About Labor

A job is a job. And I like to work.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work!

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

You can't get work without working.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.

I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Good workmen are seldom rich.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.