Labor Day 2018 Quotes: Celebrate Workers And Unofficial End Of Summer

Labor Day, also known as the unofficial end to summer, is celebrated on Monday. This day was created to honor workers from 100 years ago who were forced to work 12-hour days, seven days a week.

Most Americans throughout the country have an off from their regular work schedules on this day. This day is a federal holiday, which means the government closes most of its nonessential offices, including post offices, social security offices and states' department of motor vehicle.

To celebrate Labor Day, some quotes to share today:

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

2. “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Confucius

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. “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou

5. “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” — Aristotle

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

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

8. “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

9. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

10. “Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” — Henry Ford

11. “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.

12. “Genius begins with great works; labor alone finishes them.” — Joseph Joubert