Cease Quote by David Brainerd

Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

— Confucius

Labor, you know, is prayer.

— Bayard Taylor

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when…

— Tryon Edwards

Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

— Thomas Carlyle

“You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a…

— Kahlil Gibran

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

— George Herbert

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

— Frances Sargent Osgood

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

— Max Frisch

God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to…

— Ernest Legouve

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

— Anonymous

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the…

— Thomas Carlyle