Labor Quotes

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.