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Labor Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
- Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.…
- I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for .…
- Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or…
- To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon…
- Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.
- Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
- Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
- Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a…
- It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience…
- Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
- Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
- 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.…
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