Labor Quotes · Page 18

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

— Cesar Chavez

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

— Harry Bridges

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

— Dolores Huerta

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

— Harry Bridges

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

— Jim Rohn

I hope your Mother's Day is more pleasant than labor was.

— Anonymous

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and…

— Susan Piver

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

— Henry Ford

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the…

— Rush Limbaugh

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

— Barbara Johnson

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

— Tony Robbins

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

— Ali Babacan

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for…

— Henry David Thoreau

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S.…

— Michael Moore

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase…

— Abraham Lincoln

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all…

— Jack Kemp

Businesses are among the first to see changes in the labor market, but few countries have the necessary close relationship between business…

— Sergio Ermotti

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people…

— Jeff Baxter

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal…

— Christian Lous Lange

Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that…

— Harry Belafonte

To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him…

— William Booth

How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot…

— Sun Yat-sen

People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well…

— Rachel Kadish

We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without…

— Thomas Jefferson

First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation,…

— Richard Sherman

What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat…

— Friedrich Engels

All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your…

— Irina Ratushinskaya

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

— Henry George

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of # collaboration .

— Martin Scorsese

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

— Joey Lauren Adams

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“To create a little flower is the labor of ages.”

— William Blake

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

— Leonardo Da Vinci

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

— Leonardo da Vinci