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Labor Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when…
- Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
- Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
- ...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
- Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
- As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
- He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
- Exercise is labor without weariness.
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than…
More Labor Quotes
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and… — Martha Barnett
- Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein
- The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in. — Thomas Jefferson
- The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin