Say Goodbye to Summer With 30 Titilating Labor Day Quotes

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There's nothing as fulfilling as a much deserved day off.

Ashley Ferraro

Sincere Labor Day Quotes

As Americans, Labor Day is one of our favorite holiday weekends of the year. These cheerful quotes will remind you why you deserve the day off. After all, the holiday is much more rewarding when you know you've earned it with your hard work.

Labor Day only comes around one day a year, so take advantage of it while you can. For once, it's time to celebrate you and your accomplishments. In such a fast-paced world, it isn't always easy to take a much needed break. Whether you're planning to spend the day relaxing at home, or taking an adventure outdoors, these heartfelt quotes about hard work will help you appreciate every second of it.

Just for today, forget about your clients and all of the papers piled up on your desk. Enjoy the last bit of summer you have left with your friends and family. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for another year of hard work!

Important Labor Day Quotes

  • "No human masterpiece has been created without great labor." - Andre Gide

  • "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

  • "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

  • "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • "There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers." - H.M. Tomlinson

  • "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle

  • "Dare to be honest and fear no labor." - Robert Burns

  • "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." - Theodore Roosevelt

  • "The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures." - Luc de Clapiers

  • "Genius begins great works. Labor alone finishes them." - Joseph Joubert

Memorable Quotes On Labor Day

  • "Nothing will work unless you do." - Maya Angelou

  • "Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work." - Booker T. Washington

  • "A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them." - Elbert Hubbard

  • "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." - Thomas Edison

  • "As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force." - Elizabeth Esty

  • "The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play." - Arnold J. Toynbee

  • "Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work." - Stephen King

  • "Find something you love to do, and you'll never have to work a day in your life." - Harvey Mackay

  • "Without labor nothing prospers." - Sophocles

  • "The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." - Oprah Winfrey

Best Labor Day Quotes

  • "I learned the value of hard work by working hard." - Margaret Mead

  • "Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it." - Mother Teresa

  • "Take rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

  • "I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work." - Louis C.K.

  • "Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness." - Greek Proverb

  • "All wealth is the product of labor." - John Locke

  • "Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams." - Donovan Bailey

  • "Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation." - Samuel Gompers

  • "Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." - Ralph Ransom

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