The end of labor is to gain leisure.                                    -Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.                                    âAristotle
God give me work, till my life shall end / And life, till my work is done. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â âEpitaph of Winifred Holtby
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.                âThomas Jefferson
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.     âAnatole France
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.       âAdam Smith
Without labor nothing prospers.                                     âSophocles
Work isnât to make money; you work to justify life. âMarc Chagall
God sells us all things at the price of labor.  âLeonardo da Vinci
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.Â
âHenry van Dyke
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.    âGeoffrey Norman
âI have no more than twenty acres of ground,â he replied, âthe whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils â boredom, vice, and want.â         âVoltaire
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.    âPablo Picasso
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.                                           âCharles Simmons
Employment is natureâs physician, and is essential to human happiness.       âGalen
It is better to wear out than to rust out.   âRichard Cumberland
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.Â
âThomas A. Edison
It is better to wear out than to rust out.   âRichard Cumberland