Labor Quotes

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The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto… — Saint Augustine
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even… — James A. Baldwin
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we… — Saint Basil
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the… — Warren Beatty
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more… — Carol Bellamy
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease… — Grace Abbott
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the… — Lewis Black
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? — Allan Bloom
China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets. — Michael Bloomberg
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant… — Robert Burton
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. — Robert Burns
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. — Samuel Butler
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own… — Albert Camus
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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