Labor Quotes - Page 13

• Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Artist, People, Joy

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• My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.

  Mark Bradford

  Art, Thinking, Practice

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• Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

  Bruce Barton

  Wise, Men, Giving

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• As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.

  Henry George

  Land, Use, Wages

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• A tree says:
  My strength is trust.
  I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me.
  I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else.
  I trust that God is in me.
  I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Spring

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Life Is

  Graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “What Shall We Do?”, p.450, Library of Alexandria

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• The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.

  Martin Luther

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Trade

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.57, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.260, VM eBooks

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• Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

  Annie Smith Peck

  Real, Men, Climbing

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• Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Struggle, May

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “Works”, p.184

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• Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.

  Rick Joyner

  Son, Priceless, Expensive

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• There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Harvest, Incessant, Constant

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• Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

  Bernie Siegel

  Pain, Giving, Birth

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• During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

  Ricki Lake

  Important, Surrender, Process

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• Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Independent, Concentration Of Wealth, People

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• Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspired, Vain, Models

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• Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Glory

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• All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

  J. C. Ryle

  Humble, Humility, People

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• To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Worthy, Secure

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.338, Modern Library

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Grief, Holiday

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

  Robert Grudin

  Work, Rewards, Bread

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Mean, Years

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.404

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• I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Heart, Safety

  Pope Francis @franciscus, www.instagram.com. April 28, 2016.

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• We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dark, Doctors, Medicine

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• I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Work, Hours In The Day, Imagine

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.121, A&C Black

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