Labor Quotes

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

Free trade should not mean free labor.

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

From labor there shall come forth rest.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

Taste the joy That springs from labor.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

All that harms labor is treason to America.