Labor Quotes

Taste the joy That springs from labor.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Without labor nothing prospers.

— Sophocles

The greatness of work is inside man.

— Pope John Paul II

All wealth is the product of labor.

— John Locke

“labor begets love.”

— Dan Ariely

Work, work, work, is the main thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Labor humanizes, exalts.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

— Horace

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

— John Galt

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

— Aesop

Celebrate working by not working. Ok, why not? Happy Labor Day.

— Anonymous

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

— Mary Ritter Beard

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

— Margaret Cavendish

I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom…

— Anonymous

I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions…

— Dick Gephardt

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

— Bill Murray

Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

— David B. Haight

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free…

— Noam Chomsky

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

— Dorotheus of Gaza

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great…

— Max Boot

The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be…

— Fred Brooks

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law…

— Michel Foucault

Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and…

— Deepak Chopra

I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and…

— Angus King

It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child;…

— Grantly Dick-Read

What you have to go through to release a film is probably the most arduous set of tasks - compared to all…

— Terence Nance

Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I…

— Melody Beattie

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested…I allude to the disproportionate value…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now…

— John F. Kennedy

“What was critical to my father was that we not "go into government". His father and mother had both worked in the…

— Patrick J. Buchanan

We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other…

— Rich Lowry

It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit…

— George H Morrison

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your…

— Thomas Brooks

It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the…

— Sloane Crosley

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large…

— Barack Obama