Abraham Lincoln Quotes

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The current public aspiration seems to be: Get what you can. Can what you get. Sit on the can behind gated fences.

What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

I'm John the Fourth, so I think there's a lot of things in life that have been truly handed to me by the hard work and the pain of others.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.