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Labor Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his…
- We put our love where we have put our labor.
- Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
- A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
- Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
- Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet…
- The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
- Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore…
- For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we…
- The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.
- The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his…
- There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we…
More Labor Quotes
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the… — Warren Beatty
- No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for… — Grace Abbott
- I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to… — Lewis Black
- Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it… — Allan Bloom