LABOR QUOTES II

quotations about labor

Labor quote

It is better to drink the wine of industry from an earthen cup, than the wine of indolence from a silver tankard.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

DEMOSTHENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Fame lightens labour.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


He who labors diligently need never despair.

MENANDER

attributed, Day's Collacon


He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

SAADI

attributed, Day's Collacon


As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

THALES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"Fragments of a Tariff Discussion", December 1, 1847

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Labor has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.

HALM

attributed, Day's Collacon


Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

KARL MARX

The Communist Manifesto

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I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor.

JAROD KINTZ

$3.33


It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

LUDWIG VON MISES

Liberalism

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You don't deserve any more than your labor is worth, it doesn't matter how rich a business owner is. If you don't risk your own wealth to start your own business, you don't deserve to become wealthy like those business owners you envy.

BURGESS KRELL

user comment, "Taxpayers No Longer Have to Pay Cops to Work for Union", WND, August 11, 2015


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 labor.

ERASMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


It's hard to find cheap labor in the land of the brave and free. And the only thing that's better, that's if they work for free.

RICHARD FORD

Poems Written by a Government Prisoner in Georgia, USA


As salt savors the broth, so does labor give a relish to pleasure.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Labour is the source of every blessing.

AESOP

"The Brazier and His Dog", Aesop's Fables

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In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.

ITALIAN PROVERB