Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. — Samuel Gompers
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. — Ulysses S. Grant
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. — Bill Cosby
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers… — Angela Davis
Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the… — Angela Davis
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of… — Bette Davis
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and… — Annie Dillard
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making… — Roger Ebert
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Much effort, much prosperity. — Euripides
I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process. — Jane Fonda
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. — Steve Forbes
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this… — Alexander Hamilton
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. — Dag Hammarskjold
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy,… — J D Hayworth
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished… — Arthur Helps
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not… — Alexis Herman
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including… — Jim Hightower
We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard
If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. — Kin Hubbard
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo

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