Quotes About Labor

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

I've always known that to have anything, you've got to work hard at it.

I work hard at my job.

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

Cops can deprive people of their freedom. They are sworn to serve and protect. They work for us and they belong to, basically, a service industry, laboring in conditions that are sometimes threatening, often dangerous yet interesting.

When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air and it came down, it would hit an autoworker because the Chrysler Jefferson plant where my husband worked was very close also to where we lived.

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

The biggest cost in making a sofa is the labor/time, thus why recovering one cost almost just as much as a new one.

To take a task that could be accomplished by pushing a button or flipping a switch, and instead complete it only after spending a full day grunting and groaning from the physical effort, and all in the name of the beauty of sweat and the joys of labor—now that is a stupid idea.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.

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

nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.