Labor Day Quotes and Meaning for the Weekend

Labor Day is has fallen on the first Monday of September for more than 100 years to honor the American workforce including all individuals, organizations and events.  It is a day for millions of Americans to take a rest from their work.  

Here are some inspirational quotes to help you understand and appreciate the occasion and the labor of all fellow Americans to help to bring the nation to prosperity and well-being.

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

Sophocles said, "Without labor, nothing prospers."

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

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

All wealth is the product of labor.
- John Locke

Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness.
- Greek Proverb

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

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

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
- Ralph Ransom (inspired by the Bible)

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- Thomas Jefferson

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
- Ray Bradbury

Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.
- B. J. Gupta

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
- Tom Hanks

May these quotes inspire you towards working harder towards your dreams.