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Labor Quotes

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We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
Maria Montessori

We are the pioneers - our offspring reap the rewards. We toil so that future progeny will be superior and more honorable than us.
Authors on Labor Quotes: Abraham Lincoln Thomas a Kempis Horace Thomas Carlyle Henry David Thoreau Richelle Mead Mark Twain Samuel Johnson Thomas Jefferson Samuel Smiles Leland Stanford Noam Chomsky Victor Hugo Donald Trump Leonardo da Vinci Brigham Young Leo Tolstoy Ralph Waldo Emerson Confucius A. C. Benson Theodore Parker Jorge Luis Borges Bertolt Brecht Bayard Taylor Lee Trevino Honore de Balzac Peter Jackson Yasunari Kawabata Karl G. Maeser Kabir John Lennon Charles M. Schwab Henry Ford
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He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
Ignatius of Loyola

One who attempts to revolutionize the world must commence with themselves, or they will see no results.
3.
If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
Regina Brett

4.
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
Luis Gutierrez

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Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.
John Newton

6.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson

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Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
Ina May Gaskin

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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
Barbara Johnson

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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
Nick Cave

10.
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
Yasunari Kawabata

11.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles

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As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
Thales

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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
Hugo Grotius

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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
Kabir

16.
a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume

18.
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
John Locke

19.
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington

20.
I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
Lee Trevino

21.
Ah, why should life all labor be?
Alfred the Great

22.
A working class hero is something to be.
John Lennon

23.
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Samuel Smiles

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

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Labor is life; thought is light.
Victor Hugo

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O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.
William Shakespeare

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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
Abraham Lincoln

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The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
Phineas Quimby

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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
Ambrose Bierce

30.
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
Tacitus

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I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.
Theodore Roosevelt

32.
A labor of love always pays off.
Scott Belsky

33.
He who labours, prays.
Saint Augustine

34.
If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.
Bill Burr

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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
George Eliot

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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
William Cowper

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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
A. C. Benson

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Labour is the source of every blessing.
Aesop

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

40.
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
Horace

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I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
William Hogarth

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Labor is the true standard of value.
Abraham Lincoln

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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
Saadi

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Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.
Pope Leo I

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It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
Leonardo da Vinci

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. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.
Harold S. Kushner

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Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
Confucius

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The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
Henry Fuseli

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He who loves his work never labors.
Jim Stovall

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Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
Adolphe Thiers