Labor Quotes · Page 11

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

— Elbert Hubbard

The wealth of a country is its working people.

— Theodor Herzl

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

— Frederic Bastiat

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

— John Ruskin

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

— Thomas Merton

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

— Sam Levenson

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

— Ron Jaworski

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

— PJ Harvey

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the…

— Jacob Hashimoto

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

— Norm MacDonald

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

— George Pope Morris

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

— Natalie Merchant

“The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.”

— Albert Camus

Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself…

— Martin Luther

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people…

— Jack Kirby

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow,…

— Martin Puryear

My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and…

— Frederick Douglass

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise…

— Joshua Reynolds

down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling…

— Frank O'Hara

...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they…

— Henry Taylor

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their…

— Roger Casement

What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which…

— Avik Roy

From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and…

— Roberto Assagioli

The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the…

— Theodor Adorno

Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the…

— Leon Trotsky

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on…

— Noam Chomsky

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

— Anonymous

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Gordon B. Hinckley

He who labors diligently need never despair.

— Menander

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think [Alex Acosta]will be a tremendous secretary of labor.

— Donald Trump

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

— Iyanla Vanzant

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

— George Mason