Quotes about Wages
Working full-time should mean enough to support a family.
— Barack Obama
There are wealthy gentlemen in En-gland who drive four-horse passenger coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.
— Mark Twain
no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
— Abraham Lincoln
Grace is part of the very nature of God, and He cannot change. He is indeed the generous landowner of the parable in Matthew 20:1-16, continually going to the marketplace of life to find those in need of a day's wages so He can bring them into His vineyard and then reward them out of all proportion to their labors.
— Jerry Bridges
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
— William Booth
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
— Anonymous
The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life.
— Anonymous
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
— John F. Kennedy
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.
— Jim Rohn
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
Surely love is both work and wages.
— Richard Baxter