LABOR QUOTES III

quotations about labor

Labor quote

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

ERASMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Labour is the source of every blessing.

AESOP

"The Brazier and His Dog", Aesop's Fables

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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

WILLIAM COWPER

Hope

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Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest,
And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.

ITALIAN PROVERB


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

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

LEO TOLSTOY

Anna Karenina

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One of the huge disadvantages of being an American is that most of the hard labor is done for us.

JOSH DAFFERN

"10 Things That Will Ruin Your 2016 If You're Not Careful", Patheos, February 17, 2016


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

remarks at the 75th Anniversary Celebration of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., "To Men of Vision and High Purpose", May 3, 1941


Labour is the root of riches.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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The qualities of labor, like tools,
Grow brighter when used.

SUSAN H. BOGGS

"Labor", Poems


Without work men are utterly undone.

NEVIL SHUTE

Ruined City


All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

attributed, A Martin Luther King Treasury

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Labour, though it was at first inflicted as a curse, seems to be the gentlest of all punishments, and is fruitful of a thousand blessings.

JOHN ROGERS PITMAN

"Goodness of God", A Second Course of Sermons for the Year


Our experience tells us what is labour and recreation.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Under the regime of property, labor is not a condition, but a privilege.

PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

What is Property?


The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

memorandum filed with Assembly Bill number 2222 entitled "An Act to amend chapter four hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled 'An Act in relation to labor'"