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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
~ Thomas Carlyle ~
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
~ Robert Collyer ~
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
~ Orville Dewey ~
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
~ W.P. Kinsella ~
Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
~ Sri Anandamayi Ma ~
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.
~ John D. Rockefeller ~
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