Labor Quotes

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. — Brooks Atkinson
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W L George
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is… — Vance Packard
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when… — Samuel Johnson
He who loves his work never labors. — Jim Stovall
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. — Jacques Maritain
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. — John Florio
Free trade should not mean free labor. — Stephen F. Lynch
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. — Edwin Percy Whipple
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -… — Thomas A. Edison
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. — John Ruskin
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. — Woodrow Wilson
There is no real wealth but the labor of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. — Jim Rohn
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. — Thomas Jefferson
Life gives nothing to man without labor. — Horace
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. — Samuel Johnson
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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