Labor Quotes
My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.Aldous Huxley
The most efficient labor - Saving device is still money.Franklin P Jones
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.Eugene Edwards
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
All wealth is the product of labor.John Locke
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.Samuel McChord Crothers
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.Raymond Chandle
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.Alexander Pope
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.Edwin P. Whipple
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Menande
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.Seneca
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.Sir Winston Churchill
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
