Labor Quotes

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

Labor is no disgrace.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now." Valerie - To the Nines

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

Labor is really going to hurt.

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.