Labor Quotes
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
The most efficient labor - Saving device is still money.Franklin P Jones
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
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
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
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
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
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Menande
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
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
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
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.Wernher von Braun
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Menande
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
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
All wealth is the product of labor.John Locke
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
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.Bette Davis
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.Horace
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
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
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
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
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.Sir Philip Sidney
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
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
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.Victor Hugo
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.Thomas Merton
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 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
