Done Quote by James Russell Lowell

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble,…

— Shoshana Zuboff

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to…

— Fanny Kemble

Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race.…

— John L. Lewis

When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a…

— Max Stirner

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of…

— Musonius Rufus

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

— Victor Hugo

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

— Samuel Smiles

Labor humanizes, exalts.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

“X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but…

— Marcus Aurelius

Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer