Welcome to our collection of Inspirational Labor Day Quotes! Labor Day is a special day that honors the hardworking men and women of the United States who have dedicated their lives to the progress of our nation. These quotes are meant to inspire and motivate everyone to continue striving for excellence and to recognize the value of hard work.
Inspirational Quotes About Labor Day
🔘“It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything.” – John Locke
🔘“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play.” – Arnold J. Toynbee
🔘“Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?” — Michelle Obama
🔘“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.” — Maya Angelou
🔘“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
🔘“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” — Theodore Roosevelt
🔘“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” — Vince Lombardi
🔘“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” — Michelangelo
🔘“Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness.” — Greek Proverb
🔘“When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling.” — Derek Jeter
🔘“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
🔘“I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.” — Uzo Aduba
🔘“Labor Day means grilling outside!” – Katie Lee
🔘“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”— Aristotle
🔘“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
🔘“There is no substitute for hard work.”— Thomas A. Edison
🔘“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.” – William Feather
🔘“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” – Elbert Hubbard
🔘“Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.” – Marc Chagall
Happy Labor Day quotes to keep you going
🔘“It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.” — Martina Boone
🔘“Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” — Booker T. Washington
🔘“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
🔘“Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
🔘“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” — Pearl S. Buck
🔘“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.” — Tim Fargo
Powerful Labor Day quotes
🔘“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
🔘“All happiness depends on courage and work.”― Honore de Balzac
🔘“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
🔘“Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” — Ralph Ransom
🔘“Employment is nature’s physician and is essential to human happiness.” — Galen
🔘“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ― Jerome K. Jerome
🔘“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”― Douglas Adams
🔘“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.
🔘“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
🔘“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” — Madeleine L’Engle
🔘“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
🔘“Our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”― Voltaire
🔘“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
🔘“Without labor nothing prospers.” — Sophocles
Labor Day quotes to inspire success
🔘“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” — Dale Carnegie
🔘“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
🔘“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
🔘“Genius begins with great works; labor alone finishes them.” — Joseph Joubert
🔘“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill
“ No human masterpiece has been created without great labor.” — Andre Gide
🔘“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden
🔘“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi
🔘“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Abraham Lincoln
🔘“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Labor Day quotes to motivate you
🔘“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn
🔘“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” — Joseph Barbara
🔘“If you don’t burn out at the end of each day, you’re a bum.” — George Lois
🔘“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” — Pelé
🔘“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
🔘“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” — Ayn Rand
🔘“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
🔘“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” — Babe Ruth
🔘“You learn the value of hard work by working hard.” — Unknown
🔘“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” — Irish Proverb
Labor Day quotes to brighten your day
🔘“All wealth is the product of labor.” — John Locke
🔘“Be a worthy worker and work will come.” ― Amit Kalantri
🔘“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”― Gustave Flaubert
🔘“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.” — Robert Burns
🔘“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
🔘“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” — Menander
🔘“I used to work extremely hard and didn’t really achieve a lot of tangible things. But when I started working extremely smart, the gates of abundant blessings opened up for me.” — Edmond Mbiaka
🔘“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
🔘“If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.” — Madeleine L’Engle
🔘“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” — Benjamin Franklin
🔘“Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise, you just get confused.” — Cliff Burton
🔘“Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.” — James Weldon Johnson
🔘“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
🔘“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
🔘“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou
🔘“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas A. Edison
🔘“The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.” — Edwin Osgood Grover
🔘“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” — Charles Kingsleigh
🔘“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.” — Ginger Rogers
🔘“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
🔘“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”― Phil Jackson
🔘“The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.” — Ayn Rand
🔘“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” — Alan Cohen
🔘“We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard
🔘“Without labor, there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.” — Thomas A. Kempis
🔘“Without work, men are utterly undone.” ― Nevil Shute
🔘“Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.” — George Sand
🔘“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” — George Lucas
🔘“You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.” — Mahalia Jackson
Labor Day quotes to inspire hard work
🔘“All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the more invisible they are.” — George Orwell
🔘“An opportunity leading to your blessing can totally change your life.” — Sunday Adelaja
🔘“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” — Bette Davis
🔘“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
🔘“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” — Henry David Thoreau
🔘“If suddenly the whole workers of the whole world disappear, then the whole world will stop! Let us all realize this and let us celebrate the workers – these great people who make our world move!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
🔘“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose” ― Leonardo da Vinci
🔘“May day is not an ordinary day because it is a day that cherishes the extraordinary people, the workers!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
🔘“Men are made stronger on the realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own right arm.” — Sidney J. Phillips
🔘“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” — Marian Wright Edelman
🔘“Nothing is born into this world without labor.” — Rob Liano
🔘“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” — Napoleon Hill
🔘“Persistent work always brings a person successful results.” — Sunday Adelaja
🔘“The one who gets rich is the one who devotes himself to his work.” — Sunday Adelaja
🔘“The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.” — Thomas R. Donahue
🔘“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”― Alain de Botton
🔘“When God adds favour to your labour, your labour will become flavour.” — Olusunmade Bunmi Damola
🔘“You can’t rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.” — Barack Obama
🔘“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” — Gautama Buddha
Labor Day quotes for when you just want a break
🔘“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.” ― Victor Hugo
🔘“Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.” ― Akiroq Brost
🔘“Don’t underestimate the power of resting. It builds you back unlike anything.” ― Hiral Nagda
🔘“In this game, everyone needs a break to refuel, recharge, and jump back in full throttle.” ― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom
🔘“Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven’t yet built your tree house, it’s never too late to start.” ― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
🔘“Let’s loosen up some time and take a break to re-calibrate our life. We need no endless over-thinking, though. Let’s just connect the dots, set the scene, and steam ahead. (On a casual day without a tie).” ― Erik Pevernagie120
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” — Anatole France
🔘“Sometimes doing nothing makes way for everything.” ― Hiral Nagda
🔘“Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs.” ― Russell Eric Dobda
Labor Day quotes about the importance of rest and labor
🔘“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
🔘“Everything in the world is purchased by labor.” — David Hume
🔘“If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.” — Doug Larson
🔘“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
🔘“Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.” — Daniel Webster
🔘“Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.” — Abraham Lincoln
🔘“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” — Elbert Hubbard
🔘“Socialist William Kruse explained that the roots of the labor holiday go back to ancient Rome and sacrifices to Mai, Mother Earth, and Flora, goddess of flowers.” — Colin Fisher
🔘“While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.” — Woodrow Wilson
🔘“You may not know it’s coming / But it’s coming, almost die / Labor Day’s around the corner / Happy Labor Day to You!” — Jim Lowery
Additional happy Labor Day quotes celebrating Labor Day and hard work
🔘“Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” — Harvey Mackay
🔘“Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor – 100 years of working for America’s workers.” — Tom Perez
🔘“Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.” — James P. Hoffa
🔘“Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.” — Dean Kamen
🔘“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently.” — Marie Forleo
🔘“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.” — Joshua Waitzkin
🔘“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
🔘“This is just the beginning of a new era for America’s workers.” — James P. Hoffa
🔘“Work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt
🔘“Work harder than you think you did yesterday.” — Alex Elle
Verdict
We hope these Inspirational Labor Day Quotes have motivated and inspired you to appreciate and celebrate the hard work of the many people who have contributed to our great nation. Let’s honor them by taking this day to reflect on the importance of mental and physical labor, while recognizing the progress and achievements that have been made to further social and economic justice.