Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in… — Billy Bragg
For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of… — Andre Braugher
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society. — Unknown Author
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. — Holly Near
Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward. — Jason Zebehazy
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and… — William Howard Taft
I'm in this business because I despise honest labor. — Marty Robbins
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. — William Morley Punshon
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. — Helen Keller
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. A favorite of Thomas Alva Edison — Joshua Reynolds
For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... — George Q. Cannon
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor — Leonardo Da Vinci
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. — Victor Hugo
LABOR PAINS BUT PAYS. — Unknown Author
. . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal… — Cesar Chavez
What I hope to see for labor is the people who work in factories own the factories — Clarence Darrow
If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available… — Bertrand Russell
Rest: the sweet sauce of labor — Plutarch
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after… — Nikola Tesla

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