Labor Quotes

  • Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. ~ John Ruskin
  • Without labor nothing prospers. ~ Sophocles
  • What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ~ Arnold Glasow
  • We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance. ~ Lorne Sanny
  • Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
  • To labor is to pray. ~ Motto
  • To create a little flower is the labor of ages. ~ William Blake
  • There is no real wealth but the labor of man. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • There is no liberation without labor…and there is no freedom which is free. ~ The Siri Singh Sahib
  • The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. ~ Jim Rohn
  • The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ~ Luc De Clapiers
  • The earth is not thirsty for the blood of the warriors but for the sweat of man’s labor. ~ Brazilian Proverb
  • The biggest labor problem is tomorrow. ~ Brigham Young
  • Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it. ~ Author Unknown
  • Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. ~ Thomas Jefferson
  • Smooth hands love the labor of others. ~ Russian Proverb
  • Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. ~ Laura Towne
  • Reward sweetens labor. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. ~ American Proverb
  • Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
  • Luck relies on chance, labor on character. ~ Richard Cobden
  • Love makes labor light. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Look for a thing until you find it and you’ll not lose your labor. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Life gives nothing to man without labor. ~ Horace
  • Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ~ John Ruskin
  • Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. ~ Samuel Johnson
  • Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture. ~ Ferdinand Lasralle
  • Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. ~ Samuel Smiles
  • Labor is man’s greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. ~ Orville Dewey
  • Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor. ~ Ulysses S. Grant
  • Labor diligently to increase your property. ~ Horace
  • 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. ~ John D. Rockefeller
  • Honest labor bears a lovely face. ~ Thomas Dekker
  • God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
  • God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ~ Joseph Joubert
  • 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. ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
  • Capital is a result of labor. It is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force; labor is therefore the employer of capital. ~ Henry George
  • By labor fire is got out of stone. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor. ~ Don Alan Pennebaker
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