Labour Day Quotes - Page 2

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

  Bill Cosby

  Work, Labor Day, Quality

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

  Adam Smith

  Labour Movement, Labor Day, Firsts

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

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• A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Smile, Men

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Independent, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Believe, Opportunity

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• He who labors diligently need never despair.

  Menander

  Perseverance, Labor Day, Despair

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• Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent Women, Dignity Of Work, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Labour Movement, Labor Day

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.13

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• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  Indira Gandhi

  Funny, Success, Leadership

  "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

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• I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

  Lewis Black

  Summer, Believe, Talking

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Race, Labor Day

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• Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
  All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
  Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
  Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?

  Joe Hill

  Struggle, Taken, Ambition

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• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Inspirational, Work, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

  Aaliyah

  Work, Labor Day, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Labor Day, Faces

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 2 (1839)

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• Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Men, Hands

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 1 (1839)

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• The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

  Dave Winer

  Fruit, May Day, Happy Labor Day

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  Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

  Aaliyah

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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