Labour Quotes - Page 26

• Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

  Anatole France

  Work, Men, Labor Day

  The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard pt. 2, ch. 4 (1881)

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• It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.

  Samuel Smiles

  Spiritual, Character, Power

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.203

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• Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

  Ben Jonson

  Heaven, Half, Venture

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.743

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• Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent Women, Dignity Of Work, Labor Day

  "Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life".

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• Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Distinction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Men, Cost, He Man

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1684). “An essay on translated verse”, p.11

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• The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

  James Connolly

  Causes, Ireland

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.145, Pluto Press

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

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• Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Produce, Worthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

  Jim Rohn

  Ideas, Choices, Doubt

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• Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mastery, Lost, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Dignity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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• The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Body, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unique, Humans, Human Family

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.84, Penguin Books India

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• All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Practice, Body

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• Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Thinking

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• As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests.

  Robert Dabney

  Religious, War, Son

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.

  Adolf Hitler

  Essentials, Female, Factories

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• Labour is priceless, not gold.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gold, Priceless

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Writing, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Exploits

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.

  Alfred Noyes

  Fall, Science, Epic

  Alfred Noyes (1926). “Watchers of the Sky”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

  Frederic Raphael

  Doe, Vineyards, Television

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• We are these people,
  wistful, ironical, wilful,
  who have no part in
  new-world reconstruction,
  in the confederacy of labour.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Change, People, World

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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