Labor

(302 votes)   Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author

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(214 votes)   There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(205 votes)   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
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(186 votes)   If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(183 votes)   Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(160 votes)   Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(148 votes)   Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(139 votes)   He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(137 votes)   No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(124 votes)   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
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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(122 votes)   It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(118 votes)   Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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

Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

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(110 votes)   Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

Sri Anandamayi Ma
1896-1982, Bengali Spiritual Teacher

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(103 votes)   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
1709-1784, British Author

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