(1805 quotes found)
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
Albert Einstein
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
Mark Twain
“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
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.”
“No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.”
The Talmud
“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
“Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.”
Og Mandino
“We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another”
Anatole France
“Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”
Karl Marx
