Quotes about labor

"Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."

Carlyle, Thomas on labor   

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"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on labor   

"No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind."

Channing, William Ellery on labor   

"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures."

Clapiers, Luc De on labor   

"A man's best friends are his ten fingers."

Collyer, Robert on labor   

"Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working."

Dewey, Orville on labor
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"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born."

Florio, John on labor   

"He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor."

Franklin, Benjamin on labor   

"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."

Giraudoux, Jean on labor   

"Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on labor   

"If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains."

Herrick, Robert on labor
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"Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on labor   

"Life gives nothing to man without labor."

Horace on labor
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"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on labor   

"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned."

Jefferson, Thomas on labor   

"Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price."

Johnson, Samuel on labor   

"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man."

Johnson, Samuel on labor   

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joubert, Joseph on labor
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"Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor."

Kinsella, W.P. on labor   

"Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor."

Ma, Sri Anandamayi on labor   

"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."

Rockefeller, John D. on labor
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"The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor."

Rohn, Jim on labor   

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

Roosevelt, Theodore on labor
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"It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail."

Ruskin, John on labor   

"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on labor   

"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."

Smiles, Samuel on labor   

"If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on labor   

"The biggest labor problem is tomorrow."

Young, Brigham on labor