Quotes about Labor

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

Jesus Christ is the rest of God. He is, as N. T. Wright has put it, "the fulfillment of the sabbath."114 By taking Christ as our rest, we cease from our labors just as God did from His.115 Christianity, therefore, begins not with a do, but with a done—"It is finished!"116 We enter into God's rest, and we labor from there.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.