Quotes about Labor

Remember it is harder still To have no work to do

It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fulness of joy it holds.

Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.

Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.

If a man says to you, I have labored and not found, do not believe him. If he says, I have not labored but still have found, do not believe him. If he says, I have labored and found, you may believe him.

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Grace is part of the very nature of God, and He cannot change. He is indeed the generous landowner of the parable in Matthew 20:1-16, continually going to the marketplace of life to find those in need of a day's wages so He can bring them into His vineyard and then reward them out of all proportion to their labors.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.