Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

... 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 answerâ€”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 itâ€™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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