Famous labor quotations

   It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.  Nice Word by Charles Baudelaire

   We seem as a nation to be suffering from a mania for play. The huge development of pleasure-chasing automobiles merely symbolizes our universal restless eagerness to be running after something, anything, that we can classify as diversion. Under pressure from tormenting constituents our legislatures are piling up holidays. And the cry of labor everywhere is Cut down hours; cut down hours, until it seems as if brief, tired minutes were all that would be left for work. The obvious deduction is that work is always something to be got rid of, as if it were a curse. Yet life is work.  Meaningful Quotation by Author unknown, editorial from Labor Digest, June 1922, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions b

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.  Good Quote by D.H. Lawrence

   I have no more than twenty acres of ground, he replied, the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.  Wise Phrase by Voltaire

   To labor is to pray.  Wise Phrase by Motto of the Benedictines

   Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.  Famous Saying by Charles Kingsley

   Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.  Nice Word by Adam Smith

   Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.  Meaningful Quotation by Scottish Proverb

   Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.  Good Quote by Henry van Dyke

   Without labor nothing prospers.  Wise Phrase by Sophocles

   Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.  Wise Phrase by Martin H. Fischer

   People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.  Famous Saying by Albert Einstein

   Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.  Nice Word by Jean Jacques Rousseau

   When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.  Meaningful Quotation by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.  Good Quote by Henry Ford

   As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.  Wise Phrase by Thomas A. Edison

   Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.  Wise Phrase by Marc Chagall

   A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.  Famous Saying by Thomas Jefferson

   Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.  Nice Word by George Sheehan

   A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.  Meaningful Quotation by George Bernard Shaw

   A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.  Good Quote by Geoffrey Norman

   God sells us all things at the price of labor.  Wise Phrase by Leonardo da Vinci

   Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.  Wise Phrase by Frank A. Clark

   Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.  Famous Saying by Charles Wagner

   The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.  Nice Word by Isak Dinesen



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