Labour Quotes

• If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Success, Work

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.447, e-artnow

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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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• 'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

  Narendra Modi

  Australia, Empowerment, India

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• Genius can never despise labour.

  Abel Stevens

  Genius, Despise

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

  William Morris

  Rewards, Life Is, Enough

  'News from Nowhere' (1891) ch. 15

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• Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

  Juan Somavia

  Respect, People, Dignity

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• There can be no rise in the value of labour
  without a fall of profits.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Finance, Profit

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.31

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• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Labor Day, Secret

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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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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• 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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• To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Art, Nature

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• If little labour, little are our gains:
  Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

  Robert Herrick

  Pain, Men, Littles

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Learn to labour and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Waiting

  'A Psalm of Life' (1838).

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• Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Faith, Work, Labor Day

  "The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci".

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• The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.

  Adam Smith

  Origin Of Life, Produce, Wealth Of Nations

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.1

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• All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

  Alfred Marshall

  Effects

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A little labour, much health.

  George Herbert

  Littles

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.315

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• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  Mao Zedong

  Equal Pay, Principles, Fronts

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.298, China Books

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• No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

  John Calvin

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Moving

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• The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

  Robert Owen

  Humanity, Wages, Individual

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

  Tony Benn

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Tony Benn (1990). “The end of an era: diaries, 1980-90”, Vintage

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• We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Abuse, Invisible

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• Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

  Norbert Wiener

  Technology, Slave Labor, Machines

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.112, Hachette UK

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