Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. — Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. — Aldous Huxley
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. — Robert Green Ingersoll
When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an… — Marc Jacobs
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of… — Thomas Jefferson
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November. — Peter Jennings
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the… — Jerome K. Jerome
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. — James Weldon Johnson
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every… — Samuel Johnson
Exercise is labor without weariness. — Samuel Johnson
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. — Samuel Johnson
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. — Joseph Joubert
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration. — Edward Kennedy
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that… — Jack Kemp
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those… — John F. Kennedy
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last… — Soren Kierkegaard
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. — Henry A. Kissinger
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA.… — Jeffrey Kluger
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're… — Jonathan Kozol
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it. — Lenny Kravitz
Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic… — Madeleine M. Kunin
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. — Charles Kuralt
Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people. — Richard Lamm

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