Labor Quotes

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

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.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

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

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

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.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

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

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

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