Labor Quotes - Page 37

• Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.

  Joseph Murphy

  Men, Sweat, Trying

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.74, GENERAL PRESS

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• When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it - meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride, etc.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Pride, Reality

  "What makes us feel good about our work?". TEDxRiodelaPlata Talk, www.ted.com. October 2012.

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• What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

  Thomas Piketty

  Children, Eight, Innovation

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Hands, Community, Producers

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• Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Men, Lazy, Saving

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• My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.

  Mark Bradford

  Art, Thinking, Practice

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• A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Education, School, Men

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• The Princess Elizabeth, of England, was found dead with her head resting on her Bible, open at these words, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." So may we all fall asleep at last when the day's work for Jesus is over, and wake up in heaven to find ourselves in the delicious rest that remaineth for the people of God.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Princess, Fall

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 516), 1895.

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• Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.

  Roderick E. Stevens

  Beauty, Fashion, Missing

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• It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may be nor to serve the ends of power, but to enable man to walk upright without fear in a world which he at length will understand and which is his home.

  Paul Sears

  Home, Destiny, Men

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• What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than the labor markets and industries responding to the parenting and family needs of their employees.

  Sheila Kamerman

  World, Adjusting, Way

  Sheila B. Kamerman (1980). “Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life”, Free Pr

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• Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

  Bruce Barton

  Wise, Men, Giving

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• In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Knights, Texas

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• The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.

  Grover Cleveland

  Law, Civilization, Class

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, White, Black

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.412, Library of America

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• There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

  John Henry Newman

  Years, Treasure, Remuneration

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.99, Aeterna Press

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• Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

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• Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked
  with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.

  Saul Alinsky

  Class, Organization, People

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.189, Vintage

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• The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Life Is

  Graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “What Shall We Do?”, p.450, Library of Alexandria

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• The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in
  proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Division Of Labor, Perfection, Mind

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

  Squidward Tentacles

  Fate, Long, Giving

  "Fictional character: Squidward Tentacles". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm/Squid on Strike", 2001), www.imdb.com. 1999-.

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• Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Government, Self

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• The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.

  Martin Luther

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Trade

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.57, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

  Patrick Henry

  Perseverance, War, Evil

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• I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Government, Two

  Letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824.

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