Labor Quotes
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
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To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
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O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.
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The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
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Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.
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All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
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Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
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If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.
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I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
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We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.
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Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.
