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All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr
As salt savors the broth, so does labour give a relish to pleasure. - William Scott Downey
Every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labour spent on it is dishonest. - Leo Tolstoy
By persistent labour man may attain to all excellence. - Demosthenes
He that labours is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand. - Italian Proverb
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labour, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. - Saadi
It is ... only through strife, through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and by resolute courage, we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt
It is good to labour; it is also good to rest from labour. - Horace
It is labour alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. - Ludwig von Mises
It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity. - John Ruskin
It is to labour, and to labour only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labour is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism. - John Ramsay
Labour conquers all things. - Virgil
Labour in all its variety, corporeal and mental, is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers, under the direction and control of will. - Josiah Gilbert Holland
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
Labour is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labour and could never have existed if labour had not first existed. Labour is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln
Labour is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. - Samuel Smiles
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. - Henry Ford
Labour is the root of riches. - Edward Counsel
Labour is the source of every blessing. - Aesop
Labour with what zeal we will, something still remains undone, something uncompleted still waits the rising of the sun. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Labour, laughing at difficulties, spans majestic rivers, carries viaducts over marshy swamps, suspends bridges over deep ravines, pierces the solid mountains with the dark tunnel, blasting rocks and filling hollows, and, while linking together all nations of the earth pities the proud fool and laughs him to scorn. He shall pass to dust, forgotten; but Labour will live forever, glorious in its conquests and monuments, and will keep organized no matter how many temporary defeats it endures. - Newman Hall
Labour, though it was at first inflicted as a curse, seems to be the gentlest of all punishments, and is fruitful of a thousand blessings. - John Rogers Pitma
Without
labour, nothing prospers. - Sophocles
All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr
As salt savors the broth, so does labour give a relish to pleasure. - William Scott Downey
Every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labour spent on it is dishonest. - Leo Tolstoy
By persistent labour man may attain to all excellence. - Demosthenes
He that labours is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand. - Italian Proverb
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labour, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. - Saadi
It is ... only through strife, through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and by resolute courage, we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt
It is good to labour; it is also good to rest from labour. - Horace
It is labour alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. - Ludwig von Mises
It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity. - John Ruskin
It is to labour, and to labour only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labour is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism. - John Ramsay
Labour conquers all things. - Virgil
Labour in all its variety, corporeal and mental, is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers, under the direction and control of will. - Josiah Gilbert Holland
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
Labour is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labour and could never have existed if labour had not first existed. Labour is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln
Labour is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. - Samuel Smiles
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. - Henry Ford
Labour is the root of riches. - Edward Counsel
Labour is the source of every blessing. - Aesop
Labour with what zeal we will, something still remains undone, something uncompleted still waits the rising of the sun. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Labour, laughing at difficulties, spans majestic rivers, carries viaducts over marshy swamps, suspends bridges over deep ravines, pierces the solid mountains with the dark tunnel, blasting rocks and filling hollows, and, while linking together all nations of the earth pities the proud fool and laughs him to scorn. He shall pass to dust, forgotten; but Labour will live forever, glorious in its conquests and monuments, and will keep organized no matter how many temporary defeats it endures. - Newman Hall
Labour, though it was at first inflicted as a curse, seems to be the gentlest of all punishments, and is fruitful of a thousand blessings. - John Rogers Pitma
Love
labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for
physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It
prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to
do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing. - William
Penn
Man
is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour
by taking up another. - Anatole
France
No
human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - André
Gide
No
man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. -
Thomas
Jefferson
Of
the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which
is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the
necessity of labour for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well
as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure. - James
Mill
Our
labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and
want. -
Voltaire
Pleasure
is labour too, and tires as much. - William
Cowper
Providence
has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble
mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent
and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and
which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labour. -
Erasmus
Such
is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
- Leonardo
da Vinci
Sulky
labour and the labour of sorrow are little worth. Whatever a man does
with a guilty feeling he is apt to do wrong; and whatever he does
with a melancholy feeling he is likely to do by halves. - James
Hamilton
The
hope of reward is the solace of labour. - Publilius
Syrus
The
lot of man is ceaseless labour, or ceaseless idleness, which is still
harder.
- T. S. Eliot
There
can be no general prosperity where labour has small reward. -
Lewis F. Korns
There
is a beautiful reciprocity between labour and wealth; if the latter
is produced by the former, the former is invigorated and sustained by
the latter. - Tristam
Burgess
There
is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labour bestows. - Steven
Gould
There
is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the
root of existence, than the right of men to their own labour. -
Henry Ward Beecher
Turn
on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, observe her labours, sluggard,
and be wise. - Samuel
Johnson
We
assert that labour which is now monotonous, repugnant, and degrading,
can be ennobled, elevated, and made honourable; or in other words,
that industry can be rendered attractive! - A.
Brisbane
What
is acquired without labour is seldom worth acquiring at all. - Anne
Radcliffe
What
is earned with hard labour is eaten with pleasure. -
Chinese Proverb
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