Quotes on Labor

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

The purpose of labor is to learn;_x000D_ when you know it, the labor is over.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.

A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.