Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.