Working Man Quotes

• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happy, Work, Men

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• Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Men

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

  Ray Davies

  Money, Tired, Men

  Song: Money And Corruption / I Am Your Man

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• Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Monday

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• Hope is a working-man's dream.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dream, Hope, Men

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• At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Men, House

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Work, Men

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• There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.

  Saul Bass

  Thinking, Men, Satisfaction

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• Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

  Samuel Smiles

  Real, Men, Effort

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.

  Taeyang

  Drama, Smart, Hard Work

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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• A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

  William Morris

  Memories, Exercise, Men

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

  Don Marquis

  Money, Work, Men

  Quoted in Edward Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis (1962)

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• American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Team, Men, Class

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• What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Men, Law

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

  Karl Marx

  Country, Men

  Karl Marx, Saul Kussiel Padover (1972). “The Karl Marx Library: On revolution”, McGraw-Hill, [1972-77

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• Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hard Work, Men, Light

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• A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Men, Lasts

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• No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

  B. Traven

  Men, Use, Working Conditions

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• Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Uplifting, Men, Doctors

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Fashion, Children, Men

  Family Limitation introduction (1914)

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• What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

  David F. Houston

  Mean, Loss, Men

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• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  Barry Gibb

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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