Quotes about Labor

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.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Consider that I labored not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.

It's all in the day's work.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Do not confuse work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christians that is not the fruit of the Heavenly Vine.

A machine can do work; only life can bear fruit. A law can compel work; only love can spontaneously bring forth fruit. Work implies effort and labor; the essential idea of fruit is that it is the silent, natural, restful produce of our inner life.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;