Labor Quotes

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

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

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

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 . . . .

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

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

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

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.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.