Labor Day

Labor Day was created in the United States to honor the contributions of the vast workforce of the country. Celebrating Labor Day reminds us of the value of people who work in different industries. It is through them that we have all of the conveniences we’re experiencing in the modern world.

“No country in the world, so far as I know, has yet succeeded in carrying through a planned economy without compulsion of labor.”
-Stafford Cripps

“The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.”
-Edwin Osgood Grover

“Genius begins great work; labor alone finishes them.”
-Joseph Joubert

“Don’t be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or anyone else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.”
-Daniel Sarnoff

“Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.”
-Daniel Webster

“Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
-Harvey Mackay

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
-Margaret Mead

“A man is not paid for having a head and hand, but for using them.”
-Elbert Hubbard

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
-Beverly Sills

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”
-Kevin Durant

“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”
-Anthony Bourdain

“Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.”
-Tony Robbins

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
-Thomas Edison

“Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth and his humanity.”
-Peter Drucker