Quotes about Labor

Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

Nothing any good isn't hard.

One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.

Now the story of Abraham has the remarkable property that it is always glorious, however poorly one may understand it; yet here again the proverb applies, that all depends upon whether one is willing to labor and be heavy laden. But they will not labor, and yet they would understand the story.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Man may work from sun to sun,But woman's work is never done.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

John Henry told his captain,Says, "A man ain't nothin' but a man,And before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, Lord,I'd die with this hammer in my hand."

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.