Quotes About Labor

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

the name for workers in hokkaido was "octopus." in order to stay alive, an octopus will even devour its own limbs

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

It is, in effect, as though we forget who and what we most truly are, and thus must labor to remember ourselves and reintegrate ourselves to the state of the person of light who is united with divine being in the light-continuum.

Women's work is never easy, never clean.

White people say, "It beats digging a ditch"; black people say, "It beats picking cotton.

Start small, I always reminded myself. It was in keeping with the respect for labour that my parents had instilled in me. My father had often said, "No labour is an insult, the lowest form is dignified and worthy of respect. Start from the lowest rung." Think big I reminded myself. My father also used to say, "It is important to think without limitations. Confining ideas stunt potential.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.