Labor Quotes

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

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

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Dag Hammarskjld

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menande

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

George Washington

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

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Doug Larson

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

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

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

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

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

Dave Wine

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

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

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

The most popular labor - Saving device is still money.

Phyllis George

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Steine

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

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Thomas A. Edison

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius