1. “Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” ~ Galen
2. “There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.” ~ Bill Cosby
3. “Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.” ~ Kofi Annan
4. “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
5. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
6. “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
7. “Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.” ~ Joseph Joubert
8. “Everything in the world is purchased by labor.” ~ David Hume
9. “Labor Day means grilling outside!” ~ Katie Lee
10. “There is no substitute for hard work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
11. Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” ~ Booker T. Washington
12. “A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
13. “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” ~ Ralph Ransom
14. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. “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.
16. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”- Confucius
17. “He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” ~ Menander
18. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. -Pearl S. Buck
19. “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
20. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” ~ Charles Kingsleigh
21. “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” ~ Alan Cohen
22. “A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” ~ Victor Hugo
23. “If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. Every wheel in the creation, every mine and every mill; Fleets and armies of the nation, will at their command stand still.” ~ Joe Hill
24. “Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?” ~ Michelle Obama
25. “Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.” ~ Voltaire
26. “Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness.” ~ Greek Proverb
27. “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
28. “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play.” ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
29. “All wealth is the product of labor.” ~ John Locke
30. “Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” ~ Donovan Bailey
31. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
32. “Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
33. “Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
34. “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 work.” ~ Louis C.K.
35. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
36. “Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
37. “Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.” ~ Marc Chagall
38. “I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.” ~ Uzo Aduba
39. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
40. “Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” ~ Anatole France
41. “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
42. “Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” ~ Galen
43. “It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.” ~ John Locke
44. “Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
45. “Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.” ~ Marc Chagall
46. “Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.” ~ Samuel Gompers
47. “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
48. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” ~ Aristotle
49. “Without labor nothing prospers.” ~ Sophocles
50. “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
51. “Genius begins with great works; labor alone finishes them.” ~ Joseph Joubert
52. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
53. “Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”― Leonardo da Vinci
54. “The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.” ~ Edwin Osgood Grover
55. “Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.” ~ James Weldon Johnson.
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