The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U. S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.
I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?