Labor Quotes

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
Nikola tesla, new york times, october 19, 1931 - if edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he...
Bette davis, the lonely life, 1962 - to fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over...
The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.
Dan Kelly
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandle
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
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
Dave Barry
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.
Sidney Madwed
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
Marie Curie
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
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Sir Philip Sidney
Victor hugo - one is not idle because one is absorbed. there is...
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
George Steine
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.
Horace
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.
Theodor Herzl
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett
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
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menande
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
All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjld
The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.
John Dryden
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
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
John Anthony Ciardi
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
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
The most popular labor - Saving device is still money.
Phyllis George
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Dave Wine
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow