Cornerstones

Labor

(BIS, Progressive Farmer Archives, 1943)

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
Kobe Bryant

Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.
Daniel Webster

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

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

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
Jim Henson

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
Michelle Obama

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Helena Rubinstein

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
Abraham Lincoln

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Estee Lauder

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

'Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
William Shakespeare

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is gravy.
Bette Davis

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
Samuel Johnson

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