Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Labor gives birth to ideas.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'