(1795 quotes found)
“A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.”
George Jean Nathan
“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
Thomas Merton
“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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
“Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity”
Karl Marx
“A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.”
William Booth
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”
Robert Burns
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
Thomas Carlyle
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