Labors Quotes

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

Peace, Men, Passion

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Quintilian

Men, Alone, May

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
Abbott L. Lowell

May, Reason, Progress

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matisse

Light, Anyone, Tried

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton

Equality, Belief, Unless

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
Richard Cobden

Education, Peace, Freedom

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

Despair, Labor, Diligence

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers

Amazing, Hard, May

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale

Life, Themselves, Wants

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
Franklin Knight Lane

Dream, Stars, Stripes

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
Hernando Cortes

Success, War, Everything

I get called to do a lot of labors of love... independent films on very small budgets. If I have the time and if the project speaks to me, it's better than sitting around, right?
George Wendt

Love, Time, Small

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Dave Winer

Started, Within, Left

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
Jones Very

Life, Long, Act

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
James Bryce

Reason, Existence, Destroy

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner

Happiness, True, Fame

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