Labor Quotes
1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors
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No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love,…
— Og Mandino
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...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.
— Jung Chang
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Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the…
— Thomas Wolfe
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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and…
— Thomas Hardy
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If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we must discover them.…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm…
— Harry S. Truman
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we…
— Annie Dillard
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Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again.…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
— Augusten Burroughs
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You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the…
— John Green
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Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped…
— Don DeLillo
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Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.
— Laura Esquivel
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To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
— Steven Pressfield
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is…
— John Gardner
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I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical;…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like…
— Don Winslow
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Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of…
— Neal Shusterman
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It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he…
— Philip K. Dick
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He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as…
— Neal Shusterman
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