Quotes About Labor

Everyone needs a change of mental environment at regular periods, the same as a change and variety of food are essential. The mind becomes more alert, more elastic and more ready to work with speed and accuracy after it has been bathed in new ideas, outside of one's own field of daily labor.

riches come only to those who work hard and long.

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders:

The worn wayfaring men With the hunched and humble shoulders, Throw their laughter into toil.

L'uomo, per tua regola, nasca ricco o povero, è obbligato in questo mondo a far qualcosa, a occuparsi, a lavorare. Guai a lasciarsi prendere dall'ozio! L'ozio è una bruttissima malattia, e bisogna guarirla subito, fin da ragazzi: se no, quando siamo grandi, non si guarisce più.

Akhirnya aku sadar, untuk mendapatkan uang banyak kita harus bekerja keras dengan tenaga dan pikiran kita sendiri.

Ah, el ejército, lacra y reducto tribal del gremialismo simiesco.

Scavy laughs. "It could have been worse," he says. "We could have grown old together. Got married. Had kids. Worked on the docks for shit pay." "Ewww…" Popcorn says.

Humans - a renewable resource.

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

We labor hard for certain but the work is rote and our tomorrows are mostly settled and the way we love one another is cast by the form of our excellent contiguity, a rigorous closeness that only rarely oversteps its bounds.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.

Union membership should not be a condition for employment, and workers should have the freedom to exercise their right to determine how their hard-earned money is spent.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

No president can force shuttered mills to reopen, or companies who've left in search of cheaper labor to relocate to the United States (or those who have come back to choose expensive humans over cheaper robots).

My dad worked all his life, an engineer, 30 years, week in, week out at the same machine. That is mind-boggling to me. I do not know how the hell he did it.

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.

My father and brothers were coal miners.