(1805 quotes found)
“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
“All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
Grover Cleveland
“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!”
Aaliyah
“I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would like to God that such a system prevailed all over the world”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those who labor with their minds, rule; those who labor with their bodies, are ruled”
Proverb
“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.”
Jim Rohn
