Labor Quotes

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin

Work, Men, Daily

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
Alexander Hamilton

Country, Support, Less

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson

Home, Happy, End

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell

War, Human, Lives

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx

Science, Far, Value

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle

Writing, Idleness, Dreadful

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx

May, Said, Weapon

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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good, Evil, Away

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.
Karl Marx

Together, Among, Workers

All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke

Wealth, Product

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

Art, Joy, Expression

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
Kin Hubbard

Good, Together, Night

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Happen, Free

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats

Women, Beautiful, School

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

Life, Money, Lonely

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan

Life, Fool, Wasted

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin

Either, Land, Large

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

Others, Matter, Lives

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Power, Few

Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson

Exercise, Weariness

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler

God, After, Effort

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.
James Madison

Hatred, Pride, Side

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
Cecil Rhodes

Time, Find, Same

Labor diligently to increase your property.
Horace

Property, Increase, Diligently

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne

Conscience, Leave, Memory

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide

Great, Art, Human

Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles

Nothing, Prospers

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Tired, Mean, Words

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Ralph Ransom

Before, Joy, Reap

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard

Time, Days, Both

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