90+ Labor Day Quotes, Wishes, And Sayings

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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. — Maya Angelou

The miracle is not that we do the work, but that we are happy to do it.

Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou

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

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. — Coco Chanel

Labor Day Quotes

Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams. — Donovan Bailey

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play. — Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation. – Samuel Gompers

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. —Ralph Marston

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. — Colin Powell

I have a firm belief in the ability and power of women to achieve the things they want to achieve.

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work. — Booker T. Washington

Forrest Gump said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates.’ Your career is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. But everything is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That’s the exciting part. It’s an adventure in itself. — Nick Carter

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Labor Day means grilling outside! – Katie Lee

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. — Tim Notke

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. — Lucille Ball

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.— Aristotle

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. —H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. — Gordon B. Hinckley

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L’Engle

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. – William Feather

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

Genius begins great works. Labor alone finishes them.

Find something that you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. — Julia Child

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

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. —Babe Ruth

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen. — Michael Jordan

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

It is labor indeed that puts the difference in everything. — John Locke

If you really believe in what you’re doing, work hard, take nothing personally, and if something blocks your route, find another. Never give up. — Laurie Notaro

Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, some done, Has earned a night’s repose.

Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. – Marc Chagall

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it. —Tricia Cunningham

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. — Kobe Bryant

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

Without labor, nothing prospers. — Sophocles

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi

Dare to be honest, and fear no labor. —Robert Burns

To find joy in work is to find the fountain of youth.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There is no substitute for working hard. —Maria Bartiromo

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is the lightning that does the work.- Mark Twain

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. — Helena Rubinstein

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day and that I never do it.

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

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. — Pablo Picasso

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zone and soar, all right? —Michelle Obama

Dedication, hard work all the time, and belief. — Cristiano Ronaldo

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work, but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demands our best. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It does not ask for the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

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

You always pass failure on your way to success. — Mickey Rooney

Take rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

The only place success comes before work is the dictionary. — Vince Lombardi

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

Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. —Ralph Ransom

Hard work should be rewarded with good food. — Ken Follet

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. — Vince Lombardi

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. —Colin Powell

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi

All things are difficult before they are easy. — Thomas Fuller

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. — Steve Jobs

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. — Michelangelo

Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. —Harvey Mackay

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be? — Michelle Obama

To find what one is fit to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. — John Dewey

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

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. —Luc de Clapiers

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington

Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change. — Shonda Rhimes

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling. — Derek Jeter

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. —Oprah Winfrey

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. — Henry Ford

We are at our very best, and we are happiest when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. — Earl Nightingale

I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work. — Uzo Aduba

Keep your dreams alive. Understand that achieving anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. — Gail Devers

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. — Malcolm Gladwell

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. — Tim Fargo

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. —Thomas Edison

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. — Dwayne Johnson

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

One must work and dare if one wants to live. —Vincent Van Gogh

It was working men and women who made the 20th century the American century. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. — Barack Obama

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