Action Quote by Joseph Addison

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

— John Florio

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

— Samuel Smiles

“Whenever he had spoilt a piece of work he always set himself below the meanest labourer who had at least brawn enough to do…

— Émile Zola

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

— William Ellery Channing

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing tends to materialize man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labor

— Anonymous

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they…

— Samuel Johnson

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as…

— Charles Dickens

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson