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No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

The harder I work the more I live.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

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.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.