Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous… — Carol Bellamy
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to… — Pope Pius XII
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have… — James Adams
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates,… — Hjalmar Schacht
...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by… — Robert E. Lee
We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know… — Charles Simmons
If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence,… — Unknown Author
That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that… — Barack Obama
It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor. — Joyce Meyer
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry… — Joshua Reynolds
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish… — Wallace Shawn
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor… — Hannah Arendt
In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government. — Charles H. Percy
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. — Samuel Johnson
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers. — Robert Green Ingersoll
If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense;… — David Eugene Edwards
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout… — Benedict of Nursia
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying… — Bella Abzug
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate — Horace Mann
It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.' — Leonardo DiCaprio
You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself… — John C. McGinley
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? — Thomas Carlyle

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