Quotes about Labor

Yet even more than He made man and woman for the sake of work, He made work for the sake of man and woman— because only through work could they become truly godlike. It's

When we refrain from acting on what God says in His Word because we believe we can do more to help His cause, in reality it's pride - false humility. We indirectly communicate we know more than God, because God loves the poor, but at the same time tells us to pay those who labour in His Word doubly.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

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

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Honor lies in honest toil.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.