Quotes
Quotes about 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.
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.
Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.
They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
