Saturday, 18 May 2013

Labour - Quotes

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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


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

Without labour, nothing prospers. - Sophocles

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