Labor Quote by William Ellery Channing Download Open image “Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.” — William Ellery Channing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Labor
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image