Quotes about Labor
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
— Aesop
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
— Samuel Johnson
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
— John Calvin
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
— Henry Ford
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
— Henry David Thoreau
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
— John Milton
Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.
— Abraham Lincoln
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.
— Jerry Falwell