Labor Proverbs
Sayings about Labor
Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your
labor. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Sweet is the memory of past labor. ~ Greek Proverbs
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is
tomorrow. ~ American Proverbs
A hand that's dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with
any neighbor. ~ Traditional Proverb
The earth is not thirsty for the blood of the warriors but
for the sweat of man's labor. ~ Brazilian Proverb
Reward sweetens labor. ~ Dutch Proverb
Smooth hands love the labor of others. ~ Russian Proverbs
By labor fire is got out of stone. ~ Dutch Proverb
God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~ Dutch
Proverb
Love makes labor light. ~ Dutch Proverb
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ~ English
Saying
One monk shoulders water by himself; two can still share the
labor among them. When it comes to three, they have to go thirsty. ~ Chinese
Proverb
Quotations about Labor
The end of labor is to gain leisure. ~ Aristotle
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. ~ Marc
Chagall
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others,
no matter if he occupies a throne. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
~ Don Alan Pennebaker
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or
in colleges. ~ Laura Towne
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest. ~
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Labor diligently to increase your property. ~ Horace
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. ~ John
Ruskin
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his
God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by
Almighty God! ~ Thomas Carlyle
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. ~ Woodrow
T. Wilson
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with
it without becoming proportionately brutalized. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Without labor nothing prospers. ~ Sophocles
There is no liberation without labor...and there is no
freedom which is free. ~ The Siri Singh Sahib
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the
labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. ~ Samuel
Johnson
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by
affirmation; it is only available by labor. ~ Jim Rohn
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy
and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he
replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my
children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom,
vice, and want." ~ Voltaire
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ~
Joseph Joubert
Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
It is essential that there should be organization of labor.
This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must
organize. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or
hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an
opportunity to make a living. ~ John D. Rockefeller
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and
building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. ~ William Ellery
Channing
If you want to kill time, try working it to death. ~ Sam
Levonson
To create a little flower is the labor of ages. ~ William
Blake
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of
manual labor. ~ Oscar Wilde
Capital is a result of labor. It is used by labor to assist
it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force; labor is
therefore the employer of capital. ~ Henry George
Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and
he develops a belly. ~ Martin H. Fischer
God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~ Leonardo da
Vinci
We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke
keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.
~ Lorne Sanny
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ~
Arnold Glasow
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one
kind of labor by taking up another. ~ Anatole France
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors
makes me tired. ~ Pablo Picasso
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. ~
Thomas Jefferson
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure
is only a palliative. ~ Le Duc de Lévis
Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. ~
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is
only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher
consideration. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Honest labor bears a lovely face. ~ Thomas Dekker
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture. ~
Ferdinand Lasralle
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately
sees results. ~ Attributed to Albert Einstein
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his
brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by
the labor of his brains. ~Washington Irving
Honest labor dispels melancholy. ~ James Lendall Basford
If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any
question of success or fame, the Gods have called him. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ~ Robert Burns
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do
nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. ~
Orville Dewey
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man
is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. ~
Thomas Carlyle
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor. Christian Nestell
Bovee
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a
diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The biggest labor problem is tomorrow. ~ Brigham Young
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set
upon everything which is valuable. ~ Samuel Smiles
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be
indispensable for the happiness of man. ~ Samuel Johnson
was glorious, who was not laborious. ~ Benjamin
Franklin
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of
land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ~ John Ruskin
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to
achieve, but the will to labor. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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
Luck relies on chance, labor on character. ~ Richard Cobden
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ~
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Not all the labor of the earth, is done by hardened hands. ~
Will Carleton
There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased
without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble
pleasure. ~ Joseph Addison
Life gives nothing to man without labor. ~ Horace
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets
the appetite, temperance curbs it. ~ Author Unknown
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of
celestial fire, called conscience. ~ George Washington
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of
earth is toil. ~ Henry van Dyke
There is no real wealth but the labor of man. ~ Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870. ~ Book preview