Useful Labor Quotes

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

No human being has the right to be idle... Women must, as children of God, be trained to do some work in the world.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

Every hour of useful work is precious.

All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.

It can never be in the interest of society, in a purely economical aspect, to keep any class of its members in idleness. A man who should carry one of his arms in a sling, in order to secure greater efficiency and importance to the other, would be regarded as a lunatic.

Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.