Browsing Topic Best Labor Day Quotes

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

The harder I work the more I live.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today’s world, that does not exist.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

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

The one thing that matters is the effort.

It’s against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

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.

well that’s convenient, i guess blessings are easier to come by than i thought. maybe i should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn’t have to do anything. The thought of being something didn’t only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother’s Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.

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

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

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

I’ve got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

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

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage.

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

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

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

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

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.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

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.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.