Labored Quotes
65 quotes by 60 authors
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I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not…
— Saint Patrick
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose.…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.
— Piero Ferrucci
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It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not…
— Orison Swett Marden
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For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer…
— Earl Hamner, Jr.
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He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did…
— Saadi
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The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and new and singular…
— Christmas Evans
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A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day…
— Dorothea Dix
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Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word 'democracy' does not…
— Neal Boortz
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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them,…
— Louisa May Alcott
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I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for…
— Gloria Steinem
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Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.
— Orison Swett Marden
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and…
— Joseph de Maistre
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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was…
— Eddie Van Halen
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In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or…
— Joshua Reynolds
Who Wrote These Labored Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 65 Labored Quotes, led by these top contributors: