Labor Quotes and Sayings
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford
Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Thomas A. Edison
Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
Martin H. Fischer
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Richard Cumberland
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold Glasow
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.
Marc Chagall
If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
Sam Levonson
To labor is to pray.
Motto of the Benedictines
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
Geoffrey Norman
The cure for anything is salt water sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
George Sheehan
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.
Scottish Proverb
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Henry van Dyke
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
Le Duc de Lévis
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
Pablo Picasso
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
Author Unknown
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Thomas Jefferson
A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
Lord Acton
When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
Antonio Porchia
Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Frank A. Clark
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
Thomas Jefferson
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.
Charles Simmons
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.
Martin H. Fischer
Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Galen