Labor Quotes
The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.Dan Kelly
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.Sir Philip Sidney
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.John Dryden
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.Eugene Edwards
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
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.Victor Hugo
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Menande
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.John Anthony Ciardi
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.Alexander Pope
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
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
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.Bette Davis
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
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.Raymond Chandle
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.Marie Curie
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
All wealth is the product of labor.John Locke
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
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.Theodor Herzl
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Menande
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.Dave Wine
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
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
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
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.Victor Hugo
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
