Without labor, nothing prospers.

—Sophocles

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

— Daniel Webster

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

—Victor Hugo

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

—Ralph Ransom

The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.

—Edwin Osgood Grover

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

—Martin Luther King, Jr

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

—Aristotle

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a larger proportion of the fruits.

—Abraham Lincoln

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

—Booker T. Washington

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

—Ulysses S. Grant

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

—Robert Burns