On the first Monday of September each and every year, the United States celebrates Labor Day. The holiday honors the American labor movement and is meant to pay respect to the nation’s workers. Labor Day became a federal holiday on June 28, 1894. Here are 12 quotes that also pay tribute to the importance of work and labor in the United States:
“Without labor nothing prospers.” Sophocles
“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
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. Saint Francis of Assisi
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” Indira Gandhi
“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
“One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” Elbert Hubbard
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” Pablo Picasso
“The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” Vince Lombardi
“To find joy in work is to find the fountain of youth.” Pearl S. Buck
h/t RawStory
