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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Labor

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified.


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