Quotes about Labor
nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8
For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
- 2 Thessalonians 3:10
To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
- 1 Timothy 4:10
The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
- 2 Timothy 2:6
I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
- Revelation 2:2
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for thou out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, for dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
- John Milton
People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.
- Clay Aiken
Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.
- Herman Bavinck
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness
- Herman Melville
Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
- John Milton
We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
- Lily Tomlin
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
- Mahatma Gandhi