Top 1200 Labor Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.
Writing isn't manual labor. Nor is it emptying the dishwasher or paying bills. It's work, sure, but sometimes it should be fun.
We have relied on China for far too long to provide cheap labor and goods at the expense of America and our workers.
My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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.
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.
...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.
The supreme challenge of Labor is to recognise our 'revolutionary moment' when it arrives. And to have the courage to seize it - wholly, boldly, and completely.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.
Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.
All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
It takes an incredibly special person to be willing to put his or her life on the line for a complete stranger. And to get up every morning, day after day after day, to do that, I think, is extraordinary.
Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.
The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.
It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.
One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.
It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.
I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.
There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.
The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.
Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.
If that day come, and artists I've had incredible runs with just break my heart one day, you know what? I still got to do stuff that was actually really incredible. When that day comes, I'll deal with it. Until then, I'll be grateful for today.
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.
'The Deuce' takes a look at the remarkable paradigm of capitalism and labor: where money goes and how it's routed; who has power and who doesn't; who is exploited and who's not.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.
I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
Each day is a day that God has given us,
and each moment of that day is in His hands.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.
Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
