(1795 quotes found)
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
Mark Twain
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“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
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another”
Anatole France
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.”
“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
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius
“They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his "minimum sustenance" his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom?”
Ayn Rand
“Without labor nothing prospers.”
Sophocles
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