Quotes
Quotes about Labor
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears
And slits the thin-spun life.
I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Time elaborately thrown away.
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of 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.
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.
Ye rigid Plowmen! Bear in mind
Your labor is for future hours.
Advance! spare not! nor look behind!
Plow deep and straight with all your powers!
Thine was the prophet's vision, thine
The exaltation, the divine
Insanity of noble minds,
That never falters nor abates,
But labors and endures and waits,
Till all that it foresees it finds
Or what it can not find creates.
Clamorous pauperism feasteth
While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman
Hev one glory an' one shame;
Ev'y thin' thet's done inhuman
Injers all on 'em the same.
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.
Deemest thou labor
Only is earnest?
Grave is all beauty,
Solemn is joy.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorn. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
I 'm growing old, I'm sixty years;
I 've labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I 've failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know--
Never have I seen Carcassonne!
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
And thus he mused, "From here indeed, shall we strike terror in the Swede. A city built here by our labor, Shall frighten then, our haughty neighbor. A window into Europe, we Shall cut, by Nature's own decree...
The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow.
The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow.
Death has been proven to be 99 per cent fatal in laboratory rats.
The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
