Best 409 quotes in «labor quotes» category

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

The time for your labor has been granted.

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

The true artist can only labor con amore.

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

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

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

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

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

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

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

We put our love where we have put our labor.

Without labor nothing prospers.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as the Harlem Globetrotters, and they love that. Total power. Whether anything works or not is irrelevant. We work.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

Across industries and countries, there’s a strong inverse correlation between performance and job security. Actors and directors are fired at the end of each film, so they have to deliver every time. Junior professors are fired by default after a few years unless the university chooses to grant them tenure. Professional athletes know they’ll be pulled if they play badly for just a couple games. At the other end of the scale (at least in the US) are auto workers, New York City schoolteachers, and civil servants, who are all nearly impossible to fire. The trend is so clear that you’d have to be willfully blind not to see it.

59. Favor of God comes to people who has done their best

After Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years, do you know what happened? Laban fooled him and gave him his ugly daughter Leah. So to marry Rachel, Jacob was forced to work another seven years. So, you see, children, the Bible clearly teaches us you can never trust an employer.