That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done.
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.
Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
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.
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.
China is still our largest trading partner; however, complementarity between our economies is decreasing. We had the ability to organize a manufacturing process, and then we moved our manufacturing capability to China to make use of their labor pool.
Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back.
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.