Quotes about Labor

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.

I don't even know what 'working hard' means. If you get to sit behind a desk all day in an air-conditioned room, there's no such thing as hard work.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

It were a good strife amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

Hard work, says the Scottish proverb, never killed a man.

Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.