Labor Quotes · Page 8

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

— John Galt

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

— Horace

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

— Mary Ritter Beard

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Celebrate working by not working. Ok, why not? Happy Labor Day.

— Anonymous

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

— Aesop

“Persistent work always brings a person successful results”

— Sunday Adelaja

Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth…

— Asma Jahangir

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

— Ami Ayalon

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

— Calvin Coolidge

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

— Will Rogers

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

— Clive James

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

— Steve Forbes

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.

— Lupe Ontiveros

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the divisionof labor.

— Marshall McLuhan

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of…

— Thomas Hood

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that…

— Wesley Clark

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we…

— Alexis Herman

If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will…

— Pope Pius XII

I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness…

— Richard Bode

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go…

— Billy Bragg

If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the…

— Zhores Alferov

One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,…

— Toni Morrison

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure…

— Pope Pius XII

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and…

— Samuel Johnson

The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I…

— Steve Donoghue

What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce…

— Rafael Correa

The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets…

— Jodi Picoult

Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies…

— Richard Cobden

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

— St. Jerome

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

— Honore de Balzac

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

— Bing Crosby

Love's labor never gets lost, it just finds its way to places we fail to see.

— Anonymous

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

— Robert Grudin

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.

— William Watson

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

— John Milton