Labor Quotes

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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. — Samuel Smiles
Labor diligently to increase your property. — Horace
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… — Thomas Carlyle
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. — Harold Wilson
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em. — Thomas Otway
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads… — George Mikes
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. — Bill Murray
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the… — B.F. Skinner
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature… — Immanuel Kant
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… — Benjamin Franklin
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Thomas Jefferson
Luck relies on chance, labor on character. — Richard Cobden
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we… — John F. Kennedy
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor. — Moliere
We put our love where we have put our labor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one. — Winston Churchill
All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness. — Clive James
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard. — Carl Sandburg

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