(1805 quotes found)
“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.”
Adam Smith
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things”
Theodore Roosevelt
“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”
Bill Cosby
“Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius
“Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.”
Thomas Jefferson
“If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators”
Bertrand Russell
“Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.”
Ralph Ransom
“If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
