Labor Quotes - Page 24

• Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Skills, Rude

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume”, p.159

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• The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Hands, Body

  Theodore Parker (1859). “The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker”, p.123

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• Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Book, Writing, Tire

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.205

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• I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Excellence, Lawyer, Length

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• Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Expression, Public Opinion

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.332

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

  Barbara Johnson

  Motherhood, Easy, Ifs

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.175, Zondervan

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• Labor is the handmaid of religion.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Handmaids

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• Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Men, Bread, Duty

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• The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

  Carson McCullers

  Struggle, Ideas, Goes On

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

  Marilyn French

  Race, Energy, Habit

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Labor! all labor is noble and holy!
  Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Prayer, Noble, Deeds

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• How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Men, Envy, Bears

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• In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Communication, Heart, Successful

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1878). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878”

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• Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

  Molly Haskell

  Movie, Character, Reality

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• If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Opulence, Poverty

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• I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Broken, Unemployment, Noses

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• Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Land, Joy, Succeed

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• Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Art, Spirit, Virtue

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• Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

  Torquato Tasso

  Sleep, Ease, Virtue

  Torquato Tasso (1749). “Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered: Or Godfrey of Bulloign: An Heroic Poem”, p.37

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• I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Business, School

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• Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Grateful, Sunshine, Loss

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

  Julian of Norwich

  Running, Sweet, Spring

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• Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

  William Harvey

  Body, Care, Disease

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• Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

  Orville Dewey

  Sleep, Men, Relaxation

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