Labor Quotes

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.

LouisFerdinand Celine

She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.

Jodi Picoult

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

Samuel Smiles

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Horace

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining. We demand this fraud be stopped.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Leo Tolstoy

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.

Samuel Johnson

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.

John D. Rockefeller

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Orville Dewey

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

John Ruskin

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.

William Ellery Channing

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Brigham Young

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Jim Rohn

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Sri Anandamayi Ma

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

John Florio