Best 409 quotes in «labor quotes» category

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

The concept of productivity in America is income divided by labor. So if you're Goldman Sachs and you pay yourself $20 million a year in salary and bonuses, you're considered to have added $20 million to GDP, and that's enormously productive. So we're talking in a tautology. We're talking with circular reasoning here.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.

The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

The labor movement must be destroyed.

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

There's one last thing we need to point out. And it is a fact that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory of the United States. This puts us in a very significant disadvantage to all of the other states and to all of the other American citizens. As a matter of comparative, the U.S. citizens, the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States have much better incomes, more than twice as much, participate in the labor force of greater scales, have better results in the education system and so forth.

The time for your labor has been granted.

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.