Labor Quotes

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander

Despair, Diligence, Diligently

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
Garry Trudeau

Time, Character, Moving

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.
Janet Napolitano

Technology, Country, Nation

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
Helen Clark

Human, Pretty, Rather

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler

Country, Attention, Almost

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
Georg Simmel

Economic, Highest, Cities

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
Georg Simmel

Greatest, Means, Individual

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Battle, Looking, Anybody

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
Paul Robeson

Peace, Sports, Struggle

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.
George Papandreou

Crisis, Job, Person

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
Donald Judd

Work, Mind, Together

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.
Lucas Papademos

Growth, Sound, Market

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
Holly Near

Parents, City, Involved

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.
Graham Swift

Writing, May, Same

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Joshua Reynolds

Art, Value, Pleasure

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Philip Sidney

Life, Health, Great

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael Moore

War, Government, Business

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
Arthur C. Brooks

Success, Equality, Greater

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
Walter Ulbricht

May, Enjoy, United

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?
Claire McCaskill

Work, Home, Hard

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Francis Wright

Best, Equality, May

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.
Ernest Istook

Business, America, Around

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
Jane Byrne

Business, Moving, Late

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips

Power, American, Last

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Dana Rohrabacher

Longer, Jobs, Claim

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
J. D. Hayworth

Good, Money, Country

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
Thomas Arnold

Life, Work, Age

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.
James Chanos

Looking, Actually, Investment

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
Patricia Hewitt

Power, Experience, Here

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones

Career, Learned, Others

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