Labor Quotes
1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor…
— Socrates
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The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
— Dave Winer
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Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of…
— Ella Reeve Bloor
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits…
— Malcolm Wallop
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Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to…
— Ellen Gallagher
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My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself…
— Mark Bradford
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Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving…
— Bruce Barton
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As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of…
— Henry George
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A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely…
— Lorrie Moore
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Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more,…
— Martin Luther
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
— Jim Rohn
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The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Living did not become a problem until Man refused to listen to the inner voice. When he returns to listening He will seize to labor…
— Baird T. Spalding
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Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the…
— Bill Gates
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Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
— Ina May Gaskin
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Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.
— Rick Joyner
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The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West .…
— Billy Graham
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There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor,…
— Ina May Gaskin
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