Labor Quotes

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke. God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~Leonardo da Vinci 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. ~Elbert Hubbard. Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall Without labor nothing prospers. ~Sophocles

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 rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson God give me work, till my life shall And life, till my work is done. ~Epitaph of Winifred Holtby- The end of labor is to gain leisure. ~Aristotle- It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , 1690