Quotes about Labor
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
- Mark Twain
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
- Samuel Johnson
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.
- Hannah More
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.
- Aristotle
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.
- Will Rogers
My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.
- Donald Trump
I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.
- DL Moody
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.
- Gordon Hinckley
The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
- Ezra Taft Benson
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
- Thomas Henry Huxley