23 Inspirational Quotes For The Labor Day

International Worker’s day, AKA Labor day, is a celebration of workers and laborers for their achievements. It’s celebrated all over the world to honor their hard work. 

Here, in this post, we have come up with a compilation of labor day quotes in honor of the day. Have a look.

ONE

"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life." — Marc Chagall

TWO

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

THREE

"The end of labor is to gain leisure." — Aristotle

FOUR

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle

FIVE

“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 star-gazer.” — H.M. Tomlinson

SIX

“Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don't own it. Organized labor, by driving up the costs of production through coercive means, destroys industries. Organized labor is piracy without the boats and eye patches. Why would anybody want to celebrate organized labor?” ― Douglas Wilson

SEVEN

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” ― Eugene V. Debs

EIGHT

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.” ― Criss Jami

NINE

“Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.” ― Henry Van Dyke

TEN

“If wars are eliminated and production is organized scientifically, it is probable that four hours’ work a day will suffice to keep everybody in comfort.” ― Bertrand Russell

ELEVEN

“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.” ― Abraham Lincoln

TWELVE

“We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.” ― Martin Luther King

THIRTEEN

“A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.” ― Scott Johnson

FOURTEEN

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.ʉۥ Thomas Edison

FIFTEEN

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

SIXTEEN

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." ― Francis of Assisi

SEVENTEEN

"This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers." — James P. Hoffa

EIGHTEEN

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear." ― Greg Kincaid

NINETEEN

Without labor nothing prospers. ― Sophocles

TWENTY

In any given group, the most will do the least and the least the most.” ― Merle P. Martin

TWENTY-ONE

“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

TWENTY-TWO

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

TWENTY-THREE

“In proportion as the principle of the division of labor is more extensively applied, the workman becomes more weak, more narrow-minded, and more dependent. The art advances, the artisan recedes.” ― Alexis De Tocqueville

LearnPick wishes you a happy labor day!