What is Labor Day?
Labor Day is the first Monday in September, a creation of the labor movement and dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It is an annual national tribute to the contribution made by workers to the strength, prosperity and well being of our country.
When was the first Labor Day?
The first Labor Day holiday was observed in New York City on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, as planned by the Labor Union. The Central Labor Union observed its second Labor Day holiday a year later on September 5, 1883. By 1894, 23 more states had accepted the holiday, and on June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a law making the first Monday in September each year a national holiday.
Inspirational Quotes About Labor Day
Work hard at work worth doing. - Theordore RooseveltEverything in the world is purchased by labor. - David HumeLabor Day means grilling outside! - Katie LeeThere is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas A. EdisonNothing is born into this world without labor. - Rob LianoThe only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. - Ginger RogersWork isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. - Marc Chagall
Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right? - Michelle ObamaBe steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. - Gustave FlaubertTo find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. - Pearl S. BuckGenius begins with great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert
All wealth is the product of labor. - John LockeIt doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them. - Martina BooneYesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. - Babe RuthDon’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. - Jim RohnOur labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want. - Voltaire
Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness. - GalenThe only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. - Charles KingsleighWithout labor nothing prospers. - Sophocles
Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently. - Marie ForleoPersistent work always brings a person successful results. - Sunday Adelaja
You’re blessed if you have the strength to work. - Mahalia JacksonThe road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. - Colin R. DavisThe man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - ConfuciusMake your work to be in keeping with your purpose. - Leonardo da VinciInspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L’Engle
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. - MichelangeloThe supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play. - Arnold J. ToynbeePleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - AristotleLabor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln
It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything. - John LockeYou can’t rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come. - Barrack ObamaThough you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. - Mokokoma MokhonoanaYou don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. - Alan Cohen
Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya AngelouWithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. HinckleyWhen you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling. - Derek JeterConcentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. - William Feather
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo EmersonThe one who gets rich is the one who devotes himself to his work. - Sunday AdelajaWork is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. - George SandNo human masterpiece has been created without great labor. - Andre GideYou will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. - Irish ProverbIf I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe. - Abraham LincolnAll happiness depends on courage and work. - Honoré de BalzacYour friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. - Tim FargoWork is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness. - Greek ProverbChoose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - ConfuciusLabor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. - James P. HoffaIf you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon HillThe question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me? - Ayn RandIf you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to. - Jim HensonA man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. - Elbert HubbardAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work. - Bette DavisI like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. JeromeLabor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. - Samuel GompersWithout work, men are utterly undone. - Nevil ShuteNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. - Booker T. Washington
