Labor Quotes · Page 63

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his…

— John Gardner

The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow…

— Paul Keating

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that…

— Zora Neale Hurston

The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress,…

— Charles Schumer

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

— David Autor

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

— James O. Fraser

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that…

— Jane Byrne

LABOR PAINS BUT PAYS.

— Pandit Mustafa Arif

As mayor, I was a labor mayor who, if you asked the business community in Boston, they'll say I was a great…

— Marty Walsh

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

— Leo Tolstoy

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

— Malcolm Turnbull

No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to…

— Spencer W. Kimball

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor…

— Bill Hybels

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and…

— John C. McGinley

“As the sun shines I will make hay To keep failure at bay For there remaineth a pay For my honest toil…

— Ogwo David Emenike

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

— Laura Cereta

It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it's a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with…

— Jair Bolsonaro

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand…

— Frederic Farrar

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

— Joshua Reynolds

“Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its…

— Jack London

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…

— Allan Bloom

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing…

— Jill Lepore

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion,…

— Thomas Sherlock

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

— Edward Abbey

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their…

— Thomas Jefferson

Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any…

— Hillary Clinton

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

— Confucius

Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control…

— Gloria Steinem

I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I…

— Ronald Reagan

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

— John Ruskin

By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take…

— Robert Wuthnow

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

— Frederick E. Crane

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church…

— Anonymous

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

— Abraham Lincoln