Every year Labor Day falls on the first Monday of the September month and this year it falls on September 5th. This day is also known as Labour (In British English) Day, Worker Day and International Worker Day. Labor Day means many things to us, and for most of us, it is a day off from work.
Basically, Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer and beginning of fall season and on this season many of us get a chance to get away for a long weekend.
Here are some Labor Day quotes to celebrate the workforce and inspire those who believe in the best of their everyday jobs.
Labor Day Quotes and Sayings
There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle
Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness. – Greek proverb
No great achievement is possible without persistent work. – Bertrand Russell
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. – Marc Chagall
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. – James P. Hoffa
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. – Elbert Hubbard
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. – Samuel Gompers
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucius
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. – Thomas Jefferson
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. – Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. – Doug Larson
Men are made stronger on the realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own right arm. – Sidney J. Phillips
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. – H.L. Mencken
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. – Bill Dodds
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. – John D. Rockefeller
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. – Indira Gandhi
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. – Albert Einstein
Happy Labor Day… :)
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