Quotes About Labor

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?