{"quotes":[{"text":"Whoever works knows the grace of labour of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["dont-quit","inspirational","labour","life","motivational","self-help-inspirational","work"],"id":10437,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Be a worthy worker and work will come.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","artist","assignment","associate","blog","blogging","book-writing","business","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","closing-deal","contracts","craftsmanship","creative-writing","deal","efficiency","employee","essay","inspirational","knowledge","labor","laborer","labour","labourer","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","philosophy","project","projects","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quality","quotes","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","serviceman","skill","slogans","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","union","wisdom","work","worker","workman","workmanship","worthy","writing"],"id":40475,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, it is a thoroughly aristocratic creed. The traditional English gentleman was so averse to unpleasurable labour that he could not even be bothered to articulate properly. Hence the patrician slur and drawl, Aristotle believed that being human was something you had to get good at through constant practice, like learning Catalan or playing the bagpipes; whereas if the English gentleman was virtuous, as he occasionally deigned to be, his goodness was purely spontaneous. Moral effort was for merchants and clerks.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["class","labour","moral-effort","morality","pleasure","virtue"],"id":41390,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"},{"text":"Watch your time; keep your eyes on your talents. Set your goals and move into action. You owe the world an birth of success; Go, begin to labour for it now!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["action","begin","birth","do-it","do-it-now","eyes","food-for-thought","go","goals","israelmore-ayivor","keep-your-eyes-open","labour","now","set","set-goals","success","talent","talents","time","time-management","watch-out","watch-your-time","world"],"id":44252,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.","author":"Leon Trotsky","tags":["economy","happiness","labour","laziness","progress","socialism","technique"],"id":49117,"author_id":"Leon+Trotsky"},{"text":"Let these men sing out their songs,they've been walking all day long,all their fortune's spent and gone...Silver dollar in the subway station;quarters for the papers for the jobs.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["cocaine","job-hunting","job-seeking","jobless","joblessness","jobs","labor-song","labour","labour-party","labour-song","papers","poverty","quarters","roman-payne","silver-dollar","silver-dollards","subway-stations","subways","want-ads","workers-song","working-class","working-class-blues","working-class-troubles","working-hard","working-song"],"id":52319,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour \u0026 integrity make you successful in the long run.","author":"Md. Mujib Ullah","tags":["dream","labour","success"],"id":58085,"author_id":"Md.+Mujib+Ullah"},{"text":"LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you?","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["art","artist","artists","effort","effortless","labour"],"id":61753,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... He... Felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... Like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.","author":"J.M. Coetzee","tags":["earth","gardening","grace","labour"],"id":75698,"author_id":"J.M.+Coetzee"},{"text":"Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess that the hill of science, like that of virtue, is in some instances climbed with labour. But when we get a little way up, the lovely prospects which open the eye make infinite amends for the steepness of the ascent. In short, I am wedded to these pursuits, as a man stipulates to take his wife; viz., for better, for worse, until death us do part. My thirst for knowledge is literally inextinguishable. And if I thus drink myself into a superior world, I cannot help it.","author":"Augustus Toplady","tags":["heavenly","labour","perseverence","study","theology"],"id":100219,"author_id":"Augustus+Toplady"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}