Labor Quotes · Page 26

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

— Joan Rivers

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

— Ann Radcliffe

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

— Saint Augustine

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor,…

— Brigham Young

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

— Anna Quindlen

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

— Ralph Ransom

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

— Henry David Thoreau

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

— Peter Jennings

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

— Francis Quarles

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

— Meher Baba

I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're…

— Rand Paul

“Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so…

— Seneca the Younger

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying…

— Michael Moore

We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of…

— Warren Buffett

More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not…

— Theobald Smith

There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find…

— Joe Biden

“A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen…

— Toni Morrison

The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres…

— J. D. Sedding

The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.…

— Ezra Heywood

From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At…

— Jan Schakowsky

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who…

— Aristotle

If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them…

— Tom Waits

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually…

— Noam Chomsky

But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings.

— Annie Lowrey

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

— Carol Burnett

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

— John Thorn

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight…

— Richard Henry Horne

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

— Menander

If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

— Elton Joe Kendall

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined…

— Henry David Thoreau

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

— Thorstein Veblen

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

— Jim Rohn

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

— Eleanor Roosevelt