Funny Labor Day Quotes:

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Uplifting, Work, Teaching, Making A Difference In The World, Manual Labor

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

- Doug Larson

topic: Fun, Weekend, Car, Manual Labor, Labor Day Wishes

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

- Ulysses S. Grant

topic: Inspirational, Work, Patriotic, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: "The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci".

topic: Faith, Work, Labor Day, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Success, Work, Stress, Important Work, Inspirational Stress Relief

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

- Aristotle

topic: Philosophy, Work, Tunnels, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

- Douglas Pagels

source: Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

topic: Stress, Color, Rainbow, Inspirational Retirement, Inspirational Stress Relief

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

topic: Education, Business, Men, Labour Day, Labour Day Weekend

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Life, Motivational, Wisdom, Antithesis, World Religions

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Persistence, Achievement, Persistent, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Happiness, Mind, Secret, Always Happy, May Day

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Job Opportunities, Inspiring Business

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based 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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thank You, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

- Adam Smith

topic: Money, Gold, Firsts, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

- Lane Kirkland

topic: Money, Hard Work, Wonderful, Work Humor, Organized Labor

There is no substitute for hard work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Morning, Motivation, Hard Work, May Day, Inspirational Hard Work

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Life, Work, Thunderstorm, Labour Day

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

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Opportunity, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

- Harry Golden

topic: Motivational, Hard Work, Luck, Sure Thing, Work Day

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

- Adam Smith

topic: Firsts, Labor, May Day, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

- John Locke

source: John Locke (1821). “Two Treatises on Government”, p.221

topic: Differences, Labor Day, May Day, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

- Anatole France

topic: Work, Men, Labor Day, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

- Menander

topic: Inspirational, Success, Perseverance, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

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

topic: Stress, Men, Liberty, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

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

topic: Success, Stress, Littles, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Success, Stress, Men, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hate, Liars, Men, Labor Day Wishes, Labor Union