Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your… — Og Mandino
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. — Plutarch
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. — Philip Sidney
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership… — Leo Tolstoy
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with… — Pope Pius XII
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will… — John Ruskin
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad. — Henrik Ibsen
Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and… — Michel de Montaigne
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put… — Henry David Thoreau
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. — Ishmael Reed
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him… — Robert Nozick
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia,… — Eugene V. Debs
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you… — Eugene V. Debs
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. — James Bryce
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. — Joshua Reynolds
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines… — Gottfried Leibniz
How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination… — Grace Lee Boggs
You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared… — John Ruskin

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