Labor Quotes Quotes

“Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Inspiration is worthless without perspiration.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If the world charged us for its labor,
we would be perpetually in debt.
If the sun charged the world for its labor,
the world would be continually in debt.
If the universe charged the sun for its labor,
the sun would be incessantly in debt.
If the God charged the universe for His labor,
the universe would be eternally in debt.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We both had wanted to see a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Yale Art Gallery but, because of a labor dispute, some of the university's buildings, including the museum, were closed. As Bill and I walked by, he decided he could get us in if we offered to pick up the litter that had accumulated in the gallery's courtyard. Watching him talk our way in was the first time I saw his persuasiveness in action. We had the entire museum to ourselves. We wandered through the galleries talking about Rothko and twentieth-century art. I admit to being surprised at his interest in and knowledge of subjects that seemed, at first, unusual for a Viking from Arkansas. We ended up in the museum's courtyard, where I sat in the large lap of Henry Moore's sculpture Drape Seated Woman while we talked until dark.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

“If suddenly the whole workers of the whole world disappear then the whole world will stop! Let us all realise this and let us celebrate the workers - these great people who make our world move!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There's a time for exposure; until then keep laboring in obscurity.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Sweat makes our labor sweet.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You will only be satisfied only when you are working”
― Sunday Adelaja

“War, on the other hand, was the result of failure; failure of diplomacy, failure of intelligence, failure to prepare, failure to act decisively when appropriate action became apparent, failure to call a bluff and failure to prevent open conflict which resulted in the decimation of a generation of high-principled young men and women.”
― Col Don Wilson

“Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as an
untrustworthy person-a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief-you may begin to feel less trust worthy yourself. If you are constantly reminded of your lowly position in the social hierarchy, whether by individual managers or by a plethora of impersonal rules, you begin to accept that unfortunate status. To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample
evidence that animals-rats and monkeys, for example-that are forced into a subordinate status within their social systems adapt their brain chemistry accordingly, becoming "depressed" in humanlike ways. Their behavior is anxious and withdrawn; the level of serotonin (the neurotransmitter boosted by some antidepressants) declines in their brains.
And-what is especially relevant here-they avoid fighting even in self-defense.

Humans are, of course, vastly more complicated; even in situations of extreme
subordination, we can pump up our self-esteem with thoughts of our families, our
religion, our hopes for the future. But as much as any other social animal, and more so than many, we depend for our self-image on the humans immediately around us-to the point of altering our perceptions of the world so as to fit in with theirs. My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers - the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being "reamed out" by managers - are part of what keeps wages low. If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth.
It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Managers may
truly believe that, without their unremitting efforts, all work would quickly grind to a
halt. That is not my impression. While I encountered some cynics and plenty of people who had learned to budget their energy, I never met an actual slacker or, for that matter, a drug addict or thief. On the contrary, I was amazed and sometimes saddened by the pride people took in jobs that rewarded them so meagerly, either in wages or in recognition.

Often, in fact, these people experienced management as an obstacle to getting the job done as it should be done.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but which, while it lasted, was free of the specific problems that bedevil the labor movement today when by force of circumstance it has been separated a few notches farther from the rank and file.”
― Sidney Lens, The Crisis of American Labor

“Relying on investments, mainly stocks, is good, but not great, because it weakens the new generation by paying less attention to the physical labour of ploughing the land.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo