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| Labor Day Quotes and Sayings |
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
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle
To labor is to pray.
Benedictines's Motto
Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don't Sow Labor Into Time
Brenda Johnson Padgitt
Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China
David Letterman
God give me work, till my life shall end And life, till my work is done.
Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.
George Saunders
No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
Greg Kincaid
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
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Henry van Dyke
I don’t have a blue-collar job. It’s more of a green collar, because of all the yellow sweat stains mixing in.
Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
John Locke
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
John Wooden
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
Marc Chagall
Without work men are utterly undone
Nevil Shute, Ruined City
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Richard Cumberland
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
Steven Gould, Jumper
Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.
Terri Guillemets
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey
Thomas A. Edison
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Thomas Jefferson
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.
William Cullen Bryant
