Quotes

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
-Abraham Lincoln

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
-Doug Larson

A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.
-Scott Johnson

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
-Doug Larson

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
-Marc Chagall

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
-Thomas Jefferson

When people ask me, 'Why can't labor organize the way it did in the thirties?' the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal.
-Thomas Geoghegan.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
-Adam Smith

God give me work, till my life shall end. And life, till my work is done.
-Epitaph of Winifred Holtby

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
-Aristotle

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us.
-Abraham Lincoln

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
-H.M. Tomlinson

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
-Henry van Dyke

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
-Menander

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
-H.L. Mencken

God sells us all things at the price of labor.
-Leonardo da Vinci

There is power, there is power in a band of working men, when they stand, hand in hand. That's a power, that's a power that must rule in every land.
-Joe Hill

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
-Horace