Labor Quotes

A working class hero is something to be.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

Luck whines; labor whistles.

As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.

Labor is life; thought is light.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.

It is not labor that kills, but the small attritions of daily routine that wear us down.

Work hard at work worth doing.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

Ah, why should life all labor be?

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate.

I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

You can't do it unless you organize.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

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 more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.