Labor Quotes
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
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
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.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
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 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 efficient labor - Saving device is still money.Franklin P Jones
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.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
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.John Anthony Ciardi
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
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.Thomas Merton
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
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
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.Raymond Chandle
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
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
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
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
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The most popular labor - Saving device is still money.Phyllis George
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
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
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
