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
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
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.Victor Hugo
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide
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
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
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Menande
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.Thomas Merton
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
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
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
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
The most popular labor - Saving device is still money.Phyllis George
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
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
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
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.Francis Bacon
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.Victor Hugo
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.Robert Reich
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
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.Dave Wine
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
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
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.Confucius
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.Seneca
