Quotes about Labor

Labor is the true standard of value.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

The work under our labour grows, luxurious by restraint.

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.