Quotes on Labor Day

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

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

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

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

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.