Labor Day Quotes.
51 Labor Day Quotations 4u...
( * N.B. : Unknown names of the authors
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Ten
thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been
enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced
by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But
notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential
power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of
ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
~ Eugene V. Debs
The Labor Movement; the folks
who brought you the weekend.
~ From a bumper
sticker, 1995
Labor Day differs in every
essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays
are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man's prowess
over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by
one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to
no sect, race or nation.
~ Samual Gempers
Strange is
our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing
why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily
life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake
of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected
by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner
life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly
I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
~
Albert Einstein
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we
started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple,
dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity;
but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from
every flower, and labors and unites.
~ Jeremy
Taylor
Business,
labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital
in helping to build a more robust global community.
~ Kofi
Annan
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous
mouse will be born.
~ Horace
You must often make erasures if you mean to write
what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration
of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
~ Horace
We should so live and labor in our times that
what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came
to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in
the love of mankind.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Man has a primary property right to his person
and his labor.
If we could all live solitary and without labor,
we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights
are only available to madmen and dictators
~ Bertrand
Russell
Our mental
make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor
~ Bertrand
Russell
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing
of earth is toil.
~ Henry van Dyke
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
~ Leonardo
da Vinci
The man who
doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger
of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist
and trained nurse, a little later on.
~ Elbert
Hubbard
Work isn't
to make money; you work to justify life.
~ Marc
Chagall
Without
labor nothing prospers.
~ Sophocles
Labor was
the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It
was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was
originally purchased.
~ Adam Smith
Take rest;
a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
~ Ovid
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking
up another.
~ Anatole France
A mind always
employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~ Thomas Jefferson
God give
me work, till my life shall end
And life, till my work is done.
~ Epitaph
of Winifred Holtby
Sometimes
it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential
to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day
simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
~ Douglas
Pagels
The only
liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch
out in the sun, and scratch himself.
~ H.L.
Mencken
There is
precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there
is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
~ H.M.
Tomlinson
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~ Aristotle
It is labour
indeed that puts the difference on everything.
~ John
Locke
If all the
cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor
Day Weekend.
~ Doug Larson
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school
the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was
already taken.
~ Bill Dodds
A bad day
at work is better than a good day in hell.
~ Scott
Johnson
I have no
more than twenty acres of ground, he replied, the whole of which I cultivate
myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three
great evils - boredom, vice, and want.
God give
me work, till my life shall end
And life, till my work is done.
~ Epitaph
of Winifred Holtby
We must learn
to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.
~
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is
never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
~ A.
Philip Randolph
The conception
of purpose is a natural one to apply to a human artificer. A man who desires
a house cannot, except in the Arabian Nights, have it rise before him as a result
of his mere wish; time and labor must be expended before his wish can be gra.
~ Bertrand Russell
Constant
labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal
spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
~ Karl
Marx
In labor
news, longshoremen walked off the piers today; rescue operations are continuing.
~ George Carlin
The highest
pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
~ Mark
Twain
Thy hands
are washed, but, O, the water's spilt, That labored to have washed thy guilt:
The flood, if any be that can suffice - Must have its fountain in thine eyes.
The disease
with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
We all labor
against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
~ Thomas
Browne, Sr.
Every man
also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat
thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift
of God.
~ Bible
One cannot
properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent
delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
~ Nicholas
Rescher
The notice
which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been
kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till
I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
~
Samuel Johnson
A single
idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
~ Jacques
Maritain
You must
obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except
by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and
industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle
loyterers.
~ John Smith
For the folk-community
does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive
labor, which is what gives money its value.
~ Adolf
Hitler
That eminence
of learning is not to be gained without labor, at least equal to that which
any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to
elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human
ac.
~ Samuel Johnson
Such labored
nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearned, and make the learned smile.
~ Alexander Pope
Few can be
induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for
us.
~ Abraham Lincoln
