“It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.” DoeGoalGreaterTalentGeniusIdealsLaborPerseveranceCurseSummitSteadiness Author:Robert Schumann
“I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.” KnowsMomentsGreaterDemandLaborTasksRichness Author:Richard Bode
“A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.” ValuesSocialGreaterGreatnessDependsAmountMassLaborProductionsSubstanceRelativeCommodityRelative Value Book:Value, Price and Profit Source: Value, Price and Profit
“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.” PeopleMeanBookCountryFactsLightEconomyGreaterDemandTaxesCreatingShadowLaborOur CountrySecureWagesAbiding Author:Martin O'Malley
“There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.” AmericaCitiesGreaterSummerLaborChicagoMemorialMemorial DayLabor Day Author:Michael Wilbon
“Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.” KnowsJoyGreaterLandSucceedLaborToil Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte
“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.” MayPlayOrderGreaterReturnLaborZest Author:Plato
“The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.” MindHumansMeanGreaterGainsResourcesLaborCertaintyRelyProportionHuman MindDeprivedExertion Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.” PeopleIfsMayWholeOrderNationsEnjoyNumbersGreaterShareProduceTenHundredLaborContraryAcquireLabourCivilizedSavagesLowestPoorestIndustriousWorkmenFrugal Author:Adam Smith
“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.” MenCultureTermWealthEffortPovertyVirtueGreaterIgnoranceDiseaseDegreesLaborIncreaseInstinctHungerVicesImpulseLeisureWealth And Poverty Book:War and Peace Source: War and Peace