Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking… — Daniel Handler
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… — Thomas Jefferson
A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we… — Thomas Jefferson
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in… — Robert Hayden
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!… — Holly Near
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets. — Khalil Gibran
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and… — Arthur C. Brooks
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me. — Jerry Uelsmann
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor. — Alfred Stieglitz
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of… — Robert Adams
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. — John Ruskin
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step. — William Jennings Bryan
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would… — Richard G. Scott
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is… — Francois Guizot
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and… — Henry Ward Beecher

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