Labor Quotes

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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng… — Ayn Rand
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me… — Mark Twain
There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your… — Melody Beattie
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. — Louis D. Brandeis
There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer. — Stephen Colbert
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self. — Meher Baba
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous… — Simone Weil
Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then… — Albert Speer
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life. — Jerry Lewis
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of… — Ludwig von Mises
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your… — Tim Gunn
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. — Robert Frost
The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor. — Matthew Henry
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are. — Maria Montessori
There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other. — Abraham Lincoln
Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence — John Taylor Gatto
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily… — Henry David Thoreau
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it,… — Andre Breton
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and… — John Keats
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth,… — Thomas Carlyle
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right. — Bing Crosby
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson
When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the… — Gustav Stickley

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