Labor Quotes
Most popular labor quotes
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified—if he does it right.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
I am a man, not a consignment of goods to be bought and sold.
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.
Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
The virtuous heart, like the body, becomes strong and healthy more by labor than by nourishment.
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
