Labor Day Quotes to Honor & Recognize Hard Work

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 Roosevelt
• Everything in the world is purchased by labor. - David Hume
• Labor Day means grilling outside! - Katie Lee
• There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas A. Edison
• Nothing is born into this world without labor. - Rob Liano
• The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. - Ginger Rogers
• Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. - Marc Chagall

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• Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right? - Michelle Obama
• Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. - Pearl S. Buck
• Genius begins with great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert

• All wealth is the product of labor. - John Locke
• It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them. - Martina Boone
• Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. - Babe Ruth
• Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. - Jim Rohn
• Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want. - Voltaire

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• Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness. - Galen
• The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. - Charles Kingsleigh
• Without labor nothing prospers. - Sophocles

• Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently. - Marie Forleo
• Persistent work always brings a person successful results. - Sunday Adelaja

• You’re blessed if you have the strength to work. - Mahalia Jackson
• The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. - Colin R. Davis
• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius
• Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose. - Leonardo da Vinci
• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L’Engle

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• If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo
• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play. - Arnold J. Toynbee
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle
• Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln

• It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything. - John Locke
• You can’t rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come. - Barrack Obama
• Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
• You 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 Angelou
• Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. Hinckley
• When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling. - Derek Jeter
• Concentrate 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 Emerson
• The one who gets rich is the one who devotes himself to his work. - Sunday Adelaja
• Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. - George Sand
• No human masterpiece has been created without great labor. - Andre Gide
• You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. - Irish Proverb
• If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe. - Abraham Lincoln
• All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honoré de Balzac
• Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. - Tim Fargo
• Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness. - Greek Proverb
• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius
• Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. - James P. Hoffa
• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon Hill
• The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me? - Ayn Rand
• If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to. - Jim Henson
• A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. - Elbert Hubbard
• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. - Bette Davis
• I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. Jerome
• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. - Samuel Gompers
• Without work, men are utterly undone. - Nevil Shute
• Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. - Booker T. Washington