Labor Quotes

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With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. — Thomas Hood
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. — Samuel Johnson
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. — Thomas Carlyle
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating… — Thomas Carlyle
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who… — George Steiner
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. — Homer
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial… — Joel Salatin
It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and… — Christine Lagarde
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be… — Charles Darwin
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth. — Eli Siegel
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial… — Henry George
In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may… — Joshua Reynolds
Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. — George Grosz
Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and… — Richard Cobden
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality. — Henry Fuseli
We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans… — Deval Patrick
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. — Alexander Crummell
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your… — Richard Henry Horne
The biggest labor problem is tomorrow. — Brigham Young
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek… — Ignatius Loyola
Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out. — Will Rogers
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which… — Brigham Young

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