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Quotes About Labor

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Kas me kunagi mõtleme sellele, et maailma rikus on mäletamatutest aegadest olnud prjade loodud? Alates Mesopotaamia niisutussüsteemidest, Hiina müürist, Egiptuse püramiididest, Ateena akropolist kuni Kuuba suhkrurooistandusteni, Louisiana ja Arkansase puuvillaistandusteni, kuni Kolõma söekaevadnusteni ja saksa automagistraalideni välja. Aga sõjad? Sõdu on igivanast ajast peetud selleks, et orje saada
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
How sterile my soul and my mind are, and yet constantly tormented by empty voluptuous and excruciating labor pains!
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Grandchildren give most of the joys of parenthood and only a tenth the labor and pain.
~ S.M. Stirling
Work hard, make money, have fun.
~ sal greco
How many hours of human labor will be devoured today, by an imaginary God?
~ Sam Harris
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
~ George Sand
...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?
~ Seraphim of Sarov
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
~ Sam Walton
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
~ Joshua Reynolds
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There's always room at the top in every pursuit.
~ Andrew Carnegie
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
~ Frederick Douglass
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
~ Albert Camus
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
~ Sophocles
I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.
~ Andy Stern
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
~ Wallace Stevens
For some constitutions work is the cure for all ills.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Now, as the labor began, it was the storm she recalled. The thrash of wind and trees and the quiet terror that had kept her flat in her bed, wide awake, anticipating disaster but unable to rise to avert it—or to shake her husband, to call for help. There was only silence now, in the small living room. There
~ Alice McDermott
Others who were always within their rights to pay him practically nothing for his labor.
~ Alice Walker