Category: Labor Day

Are you looking to post an inspirational quote for Labor Day? The long holiday weekend is a great time to post to your personal or business social media platforms. If you are searching for ideas, consider the following quotes to celebrate Labor Day weekend.

1. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” – Gail Devers
2. “Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.” — Maya Angelou
3. “To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” — Pearl S. Buck
4. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
5. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
6. “Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” — Donovan Bailey
7. “The miracle is not that we do the work, but that we are happy to do it.” – Mother Teresa
8. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” — Robert Schuller
9. “Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.” – Abraham Lincoln
10. “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play.” – Arnold J. Toynbee
11. “The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” –  Vince Lombardi
12. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
13. “To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is gravy” – Bette Davis
14. “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.” — Booker T. Washington
15. “Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” — Ralph Ransom
16. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
17. “I have a firm belief in the ability and power of women to achieve the things they want to achieve.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
18. “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
19. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller
20. “It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention.” – Conan O’Brien
21. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King
22. “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”— Mokokoma Mokhonoan
23. “The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin
24. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso
25. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
26. “Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” – Madeleine L’Engle
27. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
28. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel
29. “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
30. “A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” –  Elbert Hubbard
31. “Genius begins great works. Labor alone finishes them.” – Joseph Joubert
32. “Find something that you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” -Julia Child
33. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell
34. “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
35. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” – Shirley Chisholm
36. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke
37. “If you really believe in what you’re doing, work hard, take nothing personally, and if something blocks your route, find another. Never give up.” – Laurie Notaro
38. “You always pass failure on your way to success.” — Mickey Rooney
39. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” — Henry Ford
40. “It was working men and women who made the 20th century the American century. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today.” — Barack Obama
41. “I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.” – Ray Bradbury
42. “Happiness does not come from doing easy work, but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin
43. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

Happy Labor Day! Have a safe and enjoyable weekend!