Quotes about Labor

“The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.”

“Life gives nothing to man without labor.”

“A man's best friends are his ten fingers.”

“There is no real wealth but the labor of man.”

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”

“Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.”

“Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.”

“The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.”

“If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”

“Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.”

“Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.”

“Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.”

“He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.”

“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.”

“Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.”

“Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified.”

“If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.”

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

“Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.”

“Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.”

“Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.”

“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.”

“Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.”

“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.”

“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”

“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.”

“No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.”

“It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”