Labour Quotes - Page 40

• Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Life, Kindness, Two

  'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'

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• All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.

  Samuel Beckett

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Littles, Hopefully, Blessedness

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

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• The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Tasks, Video

  "You Pay, Computer Prays For You". www.foxnews.com. March 26, 2009.

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• Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Moving, Issues

  Craig Kielburger (2010). “Free The Children”, p.57, Greystone Books

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, America, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Evil, Soil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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