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Labor Quotes by Confucius
- Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who…
- A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves…
- When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
- Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.
- These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's…
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- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
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- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — 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,… — 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
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- 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,… — Carol Bellamy
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