Labor Quotes
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He who labours, prays. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. (Quote by - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)
For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. (Quote by - Bible)
Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. (Quote by - Lord Byron )
Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands. (Quote by - Will Carleton)
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Quote by - Cervantes )
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen. (Quote by - Steven Grover Cleveland)
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. (Quote by - Steven Grover Cleveland)
When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Honest labor bears a lovely face. (Quote by - Thomas Dekker)
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. (Quote by - Rev. Frederick William Faber)
It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce. (Quote by - Henry George)
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. (Quote by - Homer )
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. (Quote by - Homer )
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. (Quote by - Menander)
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. (Quote by - Luc De Clapiers)
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. (Quote by - Orville Dewey)
By labor fire is got out of stone. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. (Quote by - Alexander Crummell)
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands. (Quote by - Mother Jones)
The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs. (Quote by - Mother Jones)
On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. (Quote by - Mother Jones)
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges. (Quote by - Harriet H. Robinson)
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do. (Quote by - Mother Jones)
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. (Quote by - John Florio)
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. (Quote by - Benjamin Harrison)
There is no real wealth but the labor of man. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A man's best friends are his ten fingers. (Quote by - Robert Collyer)
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. (Quote by - Meridel Le Sueur)
He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
