Brigham Young Quotes

Wealth has no source but labor

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.