Labor Quotes
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.Eugene Edwards
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.John Anthony Ciardi
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.Sir Winston Churchill
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.Sir Philip Sidney
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.John Dryden
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.Dave Wine
The most efficient labor - Saving device is still money.Franklin P Jones
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Menande
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.Francis Bacon
The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.Dan Kelly
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.Marie Curie
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.Doug Larson
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.Victor Hugo
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
All wealth is the product of labor.John Locke
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.Victor Hugo
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.Alexander Pope
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.Confucius
