Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to… — John Irving
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;… — Victor Hugo
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the… — Pablo Neruda
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this… — Carson McCullers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work. — Robert Green Ingersoll
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other -… — Albert Einstein
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to… — Sloane Crosley
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville
You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist… — John Kennedy Toole
The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this… — Karl Barth
Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But… — Lloyd Alexander
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than… — Samuel Johnson
Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius. — Gordon B. Hinckley
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration,… — Brigham Young
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears… — Abraham Lincoln
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if… — Daniel Handler
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer… — Aristotle
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. — Wernher von Braun
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in,… — Timothy Egan

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