Labor Quotes

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

A labor of love always pays off.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

He who labours, prays.

It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?