Quotes about Labor
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
— Hannah More
Remember, never despise a taskâany task. In doing any job, you are either creating something or bettering something.
— Janette Oke
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
— Gordon Hinckley
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
— Booker T. Washington
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
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
— St. John Chrysostom
Nothing works unless you do the work.
— Robin Sharma
In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
— Carl Sagan
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work is love made visible.
— Khalil Gibran
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
— Abraham Lincoln