This collection holds 68 labor day quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Katie Lee.

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Work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing.

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

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

Labor Day means grilling outside!

A mind always employed is always happy.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

He who labors diligently need never despair.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

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

School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

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

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

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

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

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

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

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

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

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

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

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

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

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

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers.

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.

Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.

Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.

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.

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.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

well that's convenient, i guess blessings are easier to come by than i thought. maybe i should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

Labor Day is a time to recognize and reflect on that work, and for elected officials to recommit to the too-often ignored task of fighting to improve the lives of working families.

I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems.

She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown.

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