Labor Quotes

DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

~ Steven Gould

You know not what you are capable of doing; you cannot sound the ocean of thought within you. You must labor, keep at it, and dig deep and long before you will begin to realize much. Be inactive - mourn because you were not created a giant in intellect, and you will die a fool.

~ L.g. Abell

Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

~ Henry George

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.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.

~ Karl Marx

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor nor labor without capital.

~ Pope Leo

This is a business of love and labor.

~ Chester Bennington

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

~ George Orwell

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

~ Samuel Richardson

All wealth is the product of labor.

~ John Locke

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

~ Aristotle

Labor gives birth to ideas.

~ Jim Rohn

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

~ Francis Quarles

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

~ Karl Marx

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

~ Elizabeth Esty

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

~ Anna Julia Cooper

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

~ Michelle Bachelet

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

~ Arthur C. Brooks

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.

~ Isaac Herzog

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

~ Confucius

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

~ Richard Cobden

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

~ Rudolf Hiferding

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

~ Robert Burns

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

~ Ishmael Reed

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

~ James Whistler

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

~ Henry Kissinger

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

~ Jan C. Ting

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

~ Joe Mcnally

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

~ Adam Smith

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

~ Leland Stanford

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

~ Doug Larson

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Exercise is labor without weariness.

~ Samuel Johnson

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

~ Nina Easton

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

~ Ellsworth Kelly

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

~ Alexis Herman