Past labour's pleasant. [ Proverb ]
Love makes labour light. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
By labour you will conquer. [ Motto ]
Labour itself is a pleasure. [ Motto ]
Bodily labour earns not much. [ Proverb ]
Love knows nothing of labour. [ Italian Proverb ]
Lip labour is but lost labour. [ Proverb ]
The work under our labour grows
Luxurious by restraint. [ Milton ]
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for every fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. [ Longfellow ]
Leisure is the reward of labour. [ Proverb ]
Honest labour bears a lovely face. [ T. Dekker ]
Work is worship (to labour is to pray). [ Monkish Proverb ]
Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease. [ George Herbert ]
Labour bestowed on nothing is fruitless. [ Hitopadesa ]
Labour as long lived, pray as even dying. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Where shall the ox go but he must labour? [ Proverb ]
Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow. [ Proverb ]
Labour for labour's sake is against nature. [ Locke ]
Genius is nothing but labour and diligence. [ Hogarth ]
Labour has a bitter root but a sweet taste. [ Danish Proverb ]
He that hath some land must have some labour. [ Proverb ]
It is lost labour to play a jig to an old cat. [ Proverb ]
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil. [ Proverb ]
The labour is foolish that is bestowed on trifles. [ Mart ]
Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. [ Proverb ]
When you organise a strike, it is war you organise;
But to organise our labour were the labour of the wise. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]
The labour and tediousness of polishing as with a file. [ Horace ]
Labour is preferable to idleness, as brightness to rust. [ Plato ]
Labour is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. [ Anon ]
Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man. [ Rousseau ]
To teach an ass to obey the rein, (i.e. to labour in vain.) [ Proverb ]
Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then,
Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]
Rise betimes, and you will see; labour diligently, and you will have. [ Spanish Proverb ]
The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. [ Bible ]
Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic. [ Wm. Penn ]
To punish and not prevent, is to labour at the pump, and leave open the leak. [ Proverb ]
No man ever became, or can become, largely rich merely by labour and economy. [ John Ruskin ]
Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends. [ Brooke ]
'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. [ Herrick ]
Clamorous labour knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning. [ Newman Hall ]
Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus. [ J. Johnson ]
Labour is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise is labour used only while it produces pleasure. [ Johnson ]
Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land. [ John Ruskin ]
Persevering labour overcomes all difficulties, and want that urges us on in the pressure of things. [ Virgil ]
Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour. [ John Ruskin ]
Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Labour endears rest, and both together are absolutely necessary for the proper enjoyment of human existence. [ Burns ]
Truth is to be costly to you - of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. [ John Ruskin ]
No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others. [ John Ruskin ]
Labour is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. [ Cobden ]
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]
Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]
Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]