Labor Day Quotes, Sayings for Labor Day

This Labor Day weekend, we’ll be sure to inspire you with Labor Day Inspirational Quotes to appreciate the real meaning behind the holiday.

Here we have shared some of our favorite labor centric quotes that will make you reflect on the power and importance of hard work.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
– Aristotle

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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

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I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
– Thomas Jefferson

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A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.
– Scott Johnson

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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

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

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There is no substitute for hard work.
– Thomas Edison

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Without labor nothing prospers.
– Sophocles

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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over
– Henry George

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“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
– Victor Hugo

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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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

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Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
– Bill Dodds

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“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
– Bill Dodds

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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
– Theodore Roosevelt

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“Physical labor not only does not exclude the possibility of mental activity, but improves and stimulates it.” 

– Leo Tolstoy

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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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Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it’s called the Bush Administration.
– Senator Edward Kennedy

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