LABOR QUOTES II
quotations about labor
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
THALES
attributed, Day's Collacon
It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"Fragments of a Tariff Discussion", December 1, 1847
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPER
Hope
It is better to drink the wine of industry from an earthen cup, than the wine of indolence from a silver tankard.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Labour is the source of every blessing.
AESOP
"The Brazier and His Dog", Aesop's Fables
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberalism
In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
Under the regime of property, labor is not a condition, but a privilege.
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
What is Property?
It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
You don't deserve any more than your labor is worth, it doesn't matter how rich a business owner is. If you don't risk your own wealth to start your own business, you don't deserve to become wealthy like those business owners you envy.
BURGESS KRELL
user comment, "Taxpayers No Longer Have to Pay Cops to Work for Union", WND, August 11, 2015
Labour is the root of riches.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The qualities of labor, like tools,
Grow brighter when used.
SUSAN H. BOGGS
"Labor", Poems
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
DEMOSTHENES
attributed, Day's Collacon
As salt savors the broth, so does labor give a relish to pleasure.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
The only real riches are labor; everything else is but the sign or abuse of it.
LEMONTEY
attributed, A Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association
I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor.
JAROD KINTZ
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He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.
ITALIAN PROVERB
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.
JOHN RAMSAY MCCULLOCH
The Principles of Political Economy
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY
Anna Karenina