Memorable Quotes for Labor Day

Early Labor Day Parade
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While you plan a fabulous Labor Day weekend, don't forget the workers who have made your life easier because of their efforts. Perhaps the plumber who works in your vicinity needs help to send his children to school. Or perhaps the bus driver who drops your kids to school has never been able to spare the time to take his family on vacation. Can you help them? Can you spare a moment to make Labor Day special for those who work for you? Inspire your friends and relatives to contribute or donate generously to help further the cause of laborers. With these Labor Day quotes, create a stir that awakens the heart of the nation.

Honor Laborers With Quotes

Often we turn a blind eye toward laborers and workers who toil to make our lives better. On this Labor Day, which is always celebrated on the first Monday in September, let us acknowledge and appreciate their effort.




Henry George: Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

John Locke: It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.



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

H. L. Mencken: The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

Dorothea Dix: A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

