Labor Day Quotes 2017: 20 Sayings To Celebrate Workers

Labor Day is more than just about the unofficial end to summer. Most Americans throughout the country have an off from their regular work schedules on Monday. On Labor Day, we celebrate the contribution of all workers and laborers in ensuring that other citizens benefit from their efforts.

Around the world International Workers’ Day, or Labor Day, is celebrated on May 1, which is also called May Day. However, the international date stems from the struggle of American workers. This day is associated with the American labor movement in the late 1800s, following violent protests at Haymarket Square in Chicago, because workers were made to work for seven days a week.

Laborers around the world now celebrate the holiday in May, however, Labor Day in the United States is celebrated on the first Monday of September.

To celebrate Labor Day, 20 inspirational sayings collected from Brainy Quote, wiseoldsayings.com and Huffington Post about work from influential people have been shared below:

1. "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." —Confucius
2. "Without labor nothing prospers." — Sophocles
3. "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
4. "To find joy in work is to find the fountain of youth." — Pearl S. Buck
5. "There is no substitution for hard work." — Thomas Alva Edison
6. "Nothing will work unless you do." — Maya Angelou
7. "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
8. "The end of labor is to gain leisure." — Aristotle
9. "The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play." — Arnold J. Toynbee
10. "The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." — Ginger Rogers
11. "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
12. "Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community." — Kofi Annan
13. "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
14. "I learned the value of hard work by working hard." — Margaret Mead
15. "Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." — Ralph Ransom
16. "Everything in the world is purchased by labor." — David Hume
17. "Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor." — Marshall McLuhan
18. "I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules." — Kourtney Kardashian
19. "A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity." —Thomas Jefferson
20. "Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it." — Madeleine L'Engle