Labor Quotes · Page 40

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

— John Newton

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

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Steve Forbes

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

— Clive James

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

Foreign workers typically migrate to Malaysia willingly, looking for greater opportunities, but often fall into forced labor or debt bondage.

— Mark Meadows

We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be…

— Pope Leo XIII

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education,…

— Emmanuel Macron

The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of…

— David Grubbs

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so…

— Abraham Lincoln

Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a…

— Noam Chomsky

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless…

— Henry David Thoreau

Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which…

— Pope Benedict XVI

In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on…

— Oliver DeMille

I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance…

— Sandra Cisneros

Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions,…

— St. Vincent

However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He…

— Nat Hentoff

To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes…

— Horace Mann

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a…

— Samuel Johnson

Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent…

— Lawrence Wright

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

— Grover Cleveland

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

— Saul Alinsky

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

— Albert Speer

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a…

— Bernard Baruch

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

— Victor Hugo

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the…

— Ellen G. White

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

— Bill Hybels

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

— Albert Einstein

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

— Abraham Lincoln

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.

— Learned Hand

Gravity Falls' was a labor of love, but like all labor it could be painful at times.

— Alex Hirsch

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux