(35 quotes found)
“No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.”
The Talmud
“Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.”
James Weldon Johnson
“Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister”
Thorstein Veblen
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself”
William Ellery Channing
“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could”
Jeremy Taylor
