Haile Selassie
Emperor
"The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding"
Labour quotes
Labour
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Maurice Thompson
Poet
"There is no excellence in archery without great labour."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"He who labours, prays."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital."
Henri Rousseau
Painter
"I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour."
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"The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market"
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"Faith is not reason's labour, but repose."
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"Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things."
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"Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't add up."
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"And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable."
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"Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base."
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"All labour is directed towards producing some effect."
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"Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions."
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"The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value ."
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"Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever."
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"Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?"
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"Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market."
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"Genius can never despise labour."
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"Learning without thought is labour lost."
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"To meditate is to labour; to think is to act."
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"The true success is to labour."
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"Labour is priceless, not gold."
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"I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour."
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"Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?"
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"Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself."
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