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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
Sep 25, 2025
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.
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!
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
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.
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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 fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
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.
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
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.
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
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
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
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.
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
There is no substitute for hard work.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Work hard at work worth doing.
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.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.
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 miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
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.