Quotes about Labor

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

Everyone needs a change of mental environment at regular periods, the same as a change and variety of food are essential. The mind becomes more alert, more elastic and more ready to work with speed and accuracy after it has been bathed in new ideas, outside of one's own field of daily labor.

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.