Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own… — Steve Pavlina
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor. — Albert Camus
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on… — Henry David Thoreau
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. — W. P. Kinsella
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor. — Mark Twain
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible… — Ben Bernanke
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for… — Rudyard Kipling
I feel like I have a lot more freedom to make these decisions to kind of sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labor.… — Cristina Goyanes
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds. — Abraham Lincoln
Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet its twin goals… — Julia Gillard
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors… — Henry David Thoreau
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it… — Abraham Lincoln
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of… — Mikhail Bakunin
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor. — Jimmy Carter
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that… — Jonathan Swift
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. — Charles Sumner
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man… — D. H. Lawrence

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