No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Labor in loneliness is irksome.
The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.
As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.
In the practice of art. . . it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry. . . may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.
O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.
Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat. , Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. . . . Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.