Quotes on labor
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
Voltaire
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Edison, Thomas
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Dyke, Henry Van
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
Norman, Geoffrey
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.
Shaw, George Bernard
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Clark, Frank A.
Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
Fischer, Martin H.
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
Lévis, Le Duc de
Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.
Kingsley, Charles
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.
Acton, Lord
Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.
Fischer, Martin H.
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
Wagner, Charles