| 60 Labor Quotes
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“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!”
Aaliyah Quotes |
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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
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“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor”
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
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“Without labor nothing prospers.”
Sophocles Quotes |
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“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,”
Samuel Gompers Quotes |
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“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo Quotes |
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“Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.”
Ralph Ransom Quotes |
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“All wealth is the product of labor.”
John Locke Quotes |
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“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
Thomas Merton Quotes |
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“Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
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“He who labours, prays.
[Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
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“He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
[Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]”
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes Source: Ad sororem
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“We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you
in our prayers;
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of
love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight
of God and our Father;
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Thessalonians (ch. I, v. 2-4)
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“For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that
treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his
reward.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 18)
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“Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun
The many still must labour for the one.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Corsair (canto I, st. 8)
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“Not all the labor of the earth
Is done by hardened hands.”
Will Carleton Quotes Source: A Working Woman
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“And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as
conceivable.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics
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“They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote--Author's Preface
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“Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and
building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.”
William Ellery Channing Quotes Source: War
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“It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says,
for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past
labors is pleasant."
[Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male
Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc
versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 32)
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“American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.”
Steven Grover Cleveland Quotes Source: Annual Message
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“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and
the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
Steven Grover Cleveland Quotes Source: Letter accepting the nomination for President
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“When admirals extoll'd for standing still,
Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 192)
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“Honest labor bears a lovely face.”
Thomas Dekker Quotes Source: Patient Grissell (act I, sc. 1)
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