Quotes About Labor

Paul worked hard. He did not say that God's grace made his work unnecessary. He said God's grace made his work possible.

Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.

Money is whatever symbol we decide upon to represent human energy for an item or service."

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence—

Any economy in which the most common tasks are the shuffling of paper, the punching of buttons, and the running of mouths isn't an order into which we should be pushing kids as if such jobs there were the avenue to a good life.

Wage-slaves, free in name only, are much cheaper to exploit, and work harder than slaves.

Workers who complained or died were turned into zombies, so labor unrest was never a problem.

Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm.

In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake...

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm—thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress.

Their lives had been expended in cheerless labor, their wills broken, their intelligences numbed.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

To the dwellers in Eden was committed the care of the garden, "to dress it and to keep it." Their occupation was not wearisome, but pleasant and invigorating. God appointed labor as a blessing to man, to occupy his mind, to strengthen his body, and to develop his faculties. In mental and physical activity Adam found one of the highest pleasures of his holy existence.

At a national level, the study found that thanks to Wal-Mart the total earnings of retail workers declined by $4.5 billion, with most of these losses concentrated in metropolitan areas.

After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams. Thus sleep's labor not only diminishes the power of our thought, but even that of our secrets.

Avînd ÅŸansa de-a nu fi practicat vreodat? o meserie ÅŸi nicide-a fi lucrat la c?rÅ£i serioase, am avut de-a lungul anilorenorm de mult timp: o favoare rezervat?, în principiu,cerÅŸetorilor ÅŸi femeilor. CerÅŸetori sînt tot mai mulÅ£i, îns? einu-ÅŸi dau osteneala s? scrie; cît despre femei, în zilelenoastre ele se duc la serviciu, la birou — infern idiotizant.

Din toate epocile istorice, n-aÈ™ putea munci cu sufletul împ?cat decât ca sclav, pe vremea când faraonii în?lÈ›au piramidele. S? ridici la lespezi sub lovituri de bici, dar s? le vezi încununate de veÈ™nicie È™i s? simÈ›i vidul ce se naÈ™te în jurul piramidelor, din dezertarea timpului! Ultimul sclav egiptean era mai aproape de veÈ™nicie decât oricare filosof al Occidentului.