(35 quotes found)
“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
Adam Smith
“Without labor nothing prospers.”
Sophocles
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another”
Anatole France
“Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”
Douglas Pagels
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid
“A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.”
“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
Mark Twain
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