431 Labor Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. Dag Hammarskjold

Yourself Diligently Give More Individual Noble Masses Labor Than Salvation

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. James Baldwin

Work Daily Made Enthusiasm Men Pleasant Our Fires Dead Nor Stirred Labor Effort Tasks Turns Even Daily Work

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good You Evil Pleasure Pursue Remains Passes Labor Away

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. Booker T. Washington

Life Top Must Bottom Glorify Labor Begin Common

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions. Paul Polman

Freedom Protection Become Must Freedom From Fair Global Safe Forced Operating Wages Conditions Labor Discrimination Working Harassment Standard

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Robert Burns

Fear To Be Honest Dare Labor Honest

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. John L. Lewis

Future Thoughtful Citizens Voice Demand Labor Privileges America Sustain Proclaim Them Workers Organize Assemble Injustices

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day. Lewis Black

Time Day People Speak Labor Day Politician Believe Our Summer Our Time Allowed For The People Talking Labor After Again Us Should Start

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. Luc de Clapiers

Fruit Pleasures Labor Sweetest Derived

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. Samuel Gompers

Day Man Labor Day Nation Living Dead Devoted Labor Race

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. Josiah Warren

Luxury Own Every Ruined States Brought Only Excessive Consumes He Almost Individuals Check Empires His Effectual Labor Affords Often Legitimate Bankruptcy Which Us Paying Now Universal Necessity

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind Difficulties Does Labor Body Strengthen

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation. Regina Brett

Love Generation Baking Passed Labor Gets Any

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce. Noam Chomsky

Organization Own Control Radical Believe Late Knights Over Major Also Sales Texas Labor Commerce Quite Movement Wanted Banks Century Hard Farmers Union Populist Based

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. Adam Smith

Money First All Things Purchase Price Labor Paid Original Things

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