Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts,… — Pearl S. Buck
If you want to kill time, try working it to death. — Sam Levenson
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse… — E F Schumacher
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived… — Ludwig von Mises
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In… — Nancy Pelosi
There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing… — James Carville
But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our… — Eusebius
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who labours, prays. — Saint Augustine
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration… — Horace
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from… — George Eliot
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. — Henry David Thoreau
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh. — Cesare Pavese
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but… — Frederick Douglass
If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by… — Frederick Douglass
The life of labor does not make men, but drudges. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. — Oscar Wilde
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length… — Juvenal
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching… — Plato
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures… — Washington Irving

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