Labor famous quotes
05-19-2025
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
-- Adam Smith -
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
-- Amos Oz -
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
-- Booker T. Washington -
Labor is the handmaid of religion.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.
-- Charles Osgood -
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
-- Charles Sumner -
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
-- Colonel Sanders -
After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
-- D. A. Pennebaker -
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
-- Dave Winer -
Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.
-- David B. Haight -
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
-- David Hume -
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
-- Edward Hirsch -
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.
-- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
-- George Eliot -
It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.
-- George W. Romney -
Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.
-- Hannah Arendt -
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
-- Harold Wilson -
Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.
-- Harry Bridges -
I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.
-- Heber J. Grant -
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
-- Henry Fuseli -
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
-- Henry George -
There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
-- Horace -
O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
-- Horace -
It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.
-- Horace -
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
-- Hugo Grotius -
It was a labor of love and they did really well.
-- Ian Hunter -
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
-- Ignatius Loyola -
Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
-- Ina May Gaskin -
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
-- James P. Hoffa -
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
-- John Ciardi -
The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.
-- John Ruskin -
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
-- John Ruskin -
The time for your labor has been granted.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.
-- Jung Chang -
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
-- Kabir -
Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.
-- Karl G. Maeser -
The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
-- Laura Cereta -
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
-- Learned Hand -
I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
-- Lee Trevino -
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
-- Leland Stanford -
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.
-- Leland Stanford -
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
-- Liberty Hyde Bailey -
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
-- Luis Gutierrez -
What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
-- Maria Montessori -
Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.
-- May Agnes Fleming -
It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.
-- Michael Rady -
There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.
-- Michael Richards -
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
-- Natalie Merchant -
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
-- Orville Dewey -
The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.
-- Peter Jackson -
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
-- Peter Jennings -
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
-- Phineas Quimby -
The hope of reward is the solace of labor.
-- Publilius Syrus -
If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
-- Regina Brett -
Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.
-- Rick Joyner -
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll -
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
-- Saint John Chrysostom -
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
-- Sakyong Mipham -
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
-- Samuel Smiles -
I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.
-- Sarah Shahi -
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
-- Steven Gould -
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
-- T. S. Eliot -
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
-- T. S. Eliot -
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
-- Thales
