Quotes About Labor

If a man will not work he shall not eat.

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Elbow grease is the best polish.

The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

I work 40 hours a week to be this poor.

You know what must suck , being pregnant for the whole nine months then something going wrong during labor and the baby passing away.

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

In their working outfits as busboys, waiters, gardeners, filed hands, fishermen, manual laborers, custodians, or simply the un- and underemployed, these shabby examples of the lumpen blended into the background wherever they happened to be, always seen as a mass, never noticed as individuals.

The workers of the world have to see that capitalism is only interested in profit, not them, and that it will inevitably reduce them to slave labor as it maximizes profit.

was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

Trying to make money without working is like trying to milk a cow with your hands in your pockets.

but we were given this wisdom because God chose us to become Christians, to be rescued from sin and hellfire through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Knowing this, there is no room for arrogance, but we are grateful to God for our salvation, and we labor so that others may be saved as well.

This last labor grant me, O Arethusa.

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises. Easy is the descent to hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work; that is labor.