Labors Quotes

169 quotes by 133 authors

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our… — Samuel McChord Crothers
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
Lingering labors come to naught. — Robert Southwell
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to… — Roger Casement
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall… — Samuel Johnson
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others. — Leonardo da Vinci
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
He who loves his work never labors. — Jim Stovall
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature… — Immanuel Kant
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil. — Aesop
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… — Abraham Lincoln
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. — Nicholas Rescher

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