Quotes with labor

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  • Robert Herrick If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Edwin P. Whipple In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Albert Speer In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • T. S. Eliot It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Ashley Montagu It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Horace Labor diligently to increase your property.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ulysses S. Grant Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Jim Rohn Labor gives birth to ideas.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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