By Scott Robertson
If you read this space regularly (thank you), then you know that around holidays, we like to donate it to those who think, speak and write more profoundly than we do. Such is the case this week, as we celebrate Labor Day this coming Monday.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. – Charles Kingsley
Work is the sustenance of noble minds. – Seneca
To work is to pray. – St. Benedict of Nursia
It is better to wear out than to rust out. – Richard Cumberland
Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin
Work is more fun than fun. – Noel Coward
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field, I cannot reap a kernel of the good. – Helen Keller
Thou, O God, dost sell us all things at the price of labor. – Leonardo DaVinci
Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock. – Pablo Picasso
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil. – Henry Van Dyke
To youth, I have but three words of counsel: work, work work. – Otto Von Bismarck
Many hands make light work. – William Patten
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. – Marquis De Vauvenargues
It is work which gives flavor to life. – Henri-Frederic Amiel
Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. – Voltaire
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. – Thomas Carlyle
Honest labor bears a lovely face. – Thomas Dekker
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. – Oscar Wilde
Easy living someday requires hard work today. – Anonymous
I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs. – H.L. Mencken
Many people want jobs. Fewer want work. – Anonymous
Honor lies in honest work. – Grover Cleveland
Toil is the law of life and its best fruit. – Lewis Morris
We, personally, do not know the secret to success, but we have a nagging fear that it may be work. – Anonymous
By now my task is done. I can fly or I can run. – Milton
There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Alva Edison
I have been told there is nothing like hard work. True as this may be, there is still hard work. – Anonymous
