Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. — William Morley Punshon
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. — Louis Nizer
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work — Andre Agassi
Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life. — Chris LeDoux
The general trend is that people who frequently carry heavy loads and do other 'back-breaking' work get fewer back injuries than those who sit in chairs for hours bent over a machine. — Daniel Lieberman
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor. — Nick Cave
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands. — Benedict of Nursia
Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse. — Michel Foucault
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. — Anonymous
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln
The hardest work in the world is being out of work. — Whitney M. Young
Labor gives birth to ideas. — Jim Rohn
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. — James Weldon Johnson
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. — James Garfield
There is no substitute for hard work. — Thomas A. Edison
Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot. — Aziz Ansari
Manual Labor Image Quotes
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Manual Work Quotes
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. — W. P. Kinsella
Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. — Mac McAnally
As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin. — Poemen
There is no substitute for hard work.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere. — A. A. Milne
We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it. — David Ben-Gurion
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. — Elon Musk
Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15. — Johnny Marr
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence. — Maria Montessori
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old. — Steve Israel
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. — Lord Byron
Labor Quotes
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. — Clare of Assisi
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. — Bhagat Singh
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery. — Frantz Fanon
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. — Socrates
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. — Cecil Rhodes
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it. — Thomas Aquinas
The people united will never be defeated. — Cesar Chavez
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. — Hippocrates
Hard Labour Quotes
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard! — Aaliyah
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. — Sidney Phillips
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. — Henry Ford
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. — John Milton
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful! — Lewis Carroll
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate. — Jane Austen
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger. — George Galloway
Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour. — Patrick Duffy
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading. — Benedict of Nursia
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. — Ishmael Reed
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. — W.P. Kinsella
I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors. — Kellan Lutz
And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do. — Nick Offerman
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict. — Peter Maurin
I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro. — Lee Trevino
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. — Marguerite Duras
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. — John Gregory Dunne
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. — Oscar Wilde
It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.' — Leonardo DiCaprio
Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature. — Jennifer Connelly
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. — Peter Drucker
I class myself as a manual laborer. — Theodore White
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. — Mary Ellen Chase
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. — Natalie Merchant
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham
Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. — George Grosz
There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do. — Hank Aaron
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. — Simone Weil
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. — William James
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer. — Irving Stone
Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor. — Scott Adams
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating. — W. Somerset Maugham
In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory. — Paul Evdokimov
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. ... Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them. — Herbert Marcuse
Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short. — Paul Krugman
Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror. — Dean Karnazes
Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor. — Nicholas Sparks
Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor. — Richelle Mead
I don't suppose you offered to help?" "Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?" "What? With you?" "No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me. — Richelle Mead
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