People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
It is Trump who plays with the tax code to pay no taxes; it is Trump whose Trump-brand products are made overseas… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol.… — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Every landscape remembers. The question is whether we are willing to listen before the next storm rewrites the story.” — Robert W Collin Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else. — Niall Matter Copy Share Image
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
“War, building like methane in the chamber of a mine: any day could come the spark.” — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
From field to field, and desk to desk, your hard work is what makes our nation the best! Happy Labor Day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. — John Galt Copy Share Image
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
