Quotes About Labor

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

You can't receive a living wage unless you work.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

Everyone should work; it's good for the soul.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Labor is God's education.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.