Quotes About Labor

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose- not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perserveringly...Even if a man fail in his efforts, it will be a satisfaction to him to enjoy the consciousness of having done his best (p.205)

Certainly our market economy places less value on the work of cleaning houses or working in a child-care center than it does on financial management, the practice of medicine, or jobs in manufacturing. To the extent that these latter fields have been understood as male domain, they represent a piece of the male-dominated system that keeps women in subjugated roles.

In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman's body.

I'm waiting to offer you a good thing in sacrifices but going there we know is labor later toward Kydro say I am coming

world's first labor story: Exodus. Pharaoh was the first bad boss, Moses was the first labor leader, and the Exodus was the first strike.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

The time for your labor has been granted.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Time was made for slaves.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.