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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
Sep 24, 2025
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
He who labors diligently need never despair.
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.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Work hard at work worth doing.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
A mind always employed is always happy.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
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.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
The harder I work the more I live.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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