Labor Quotes

Life gives nothing to man without labor. (Horace)
Learning without thought is labor lost and thought without learning is perilous. View quote
Confucius
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. View quote
Seneca
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. View quote
Anatole France
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. View quote
Joseph Joubert
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. View quote
George Washington
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. View quote
William Howard Taft
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. (Karl Marx)
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. View quote
Daniel Webster
Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. View quote
Alexander Pope
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
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. View quote
Cecil Rhodes
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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. (Mary McCarthy)
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. View quote
Thomas Browne
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant