Joy Quote by John Ruskin

“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. • JOHN RUSKIN”

— Philip Pullman

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two…

— John Ruskin

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

— Frederick William Faber

Labour is the source of every blessing.

— Aesop

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

— A. C. Benson

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

“The mass of society is made up of morbid thinkers, and miserable workers. Now it is only by labour that thought can be made…

— John Ruskin

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he…

— Karl Marx

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

— Alexander Crummell

Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

— Peter Steele

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

— Thomas Aquinas

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

— James Beattie