Funny Labor Day Quotes

• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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

  Doug Larson

  Fun, Work, Weekend

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• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Inspirational, Work, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Faith, Work, Labor Day

  "The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci".

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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  The end of labor is to gain leisure.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

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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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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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

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Perseverance, Persistence, Achievement

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• A mind always employed is always happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Labor Day, Mind, May Day

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Labour Movement, Labor Day

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.13

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• If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

  Lane Kirkland

  Funny, Money, Hard Work

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Believe, Opportunity

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

  Adam Smith

  Labour Movement, Labor Day, Firsts

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

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• It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

  John Locke

  Differences, Labor Day, May Day

  John Locke (1821). “Two Treatises on Government”, p.221

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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

  Anatole France

  Work, Men, Labor Day

  The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard pt. 2, ch. 4 (1881)

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