Labor Quotes

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

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.

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

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.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

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

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