Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.—U.S. Grant.
If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.—James A. Garfield.
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.—Beecher.
Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.—Horace Mann.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.—J.G. Holland.
Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.—Carlyle.
Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic.—William Penn.
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.—Bovee.
Labor is rest—from the sorrows that greet us;
Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill.
—Frances S. Osgood.
No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him.
—Lowell.