Labor Quotes

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

We may never truly see the fruits of the labor.

Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer.

The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.

When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.