Labor omnia vincit

Labor omnia vincit, and laboratory omnia vincit improbus, (Latin: " work conquers all " or " Hard work conquers all " ) is a Latin motto, which has far-reaching widespread.

Dissemination

Different organizations use the laboratory omnia vincit motto:

• The U.S. labor movement (United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America )
• Cities and states (eg: West Bromwich, Oklahoma, Mpumalanga Province in South Africa)
• Educational institutions (eg: Assumption University )

Origin

The phrase goes back to Virgil's Georgics in connection with agriculture. He finds in Book I, verse 145 f, mention in the form: Laboratory omnia vicit improbus (Latin: " The tedious work defeated everything ").

Virgil contrasts in the Georgics the Golden Age with the later " arduous " work ( labor improbus ) of the farmers who torments them and which is sometimes in vain. Later, he then represents the " arduous " work "hard " work ( laboratory durus ) against which, however, is not in vain and for the farmers to the joys of harvest. Improbus is, contrary to many examples of the use of this set in modern times, a negatively connoted adjective.