Showing posts with label Labor Day sayings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labor Day sayings. Show all posts

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Happy Labor Day!, Quotes and a Verse...




Labor Day Quotes and a Verse


"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest."
- Matthew 11:28


"God sells us all things at the price of labor."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Without labor nothing prospers."
- Sophocles

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created
by the individual who can labor in freedom."
- Albert Einstein

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
- Pearl S. Buck

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine
percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt
those who are doing it."
- A Chinese Proverb

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
- Ovid

"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.
But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure
that your most important decision in the day simply consists
of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow."
- Douglas Pagels

"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily
now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on
his head for the edification of the pathologist and a trained nurse,
a little later on."
- Elbert Hubbard

"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end,
it would probably be Labor Day weekend."
- Doug Larson



Sunday, September 6, 2009

Labor Day Quotes and a Verse...




Quotes and a Verse for Labor Day


"Do not labor for the food that perishes,
but for the food that endures to eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give to you.
For on Him God the Father has set His seal."
- John 6:27
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"God sells us all things at the price of labor."
- Leonardo da Vinci
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"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."
- Marc Chagall
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance,
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately,
you occasionally find men who disgrace labor."
- Ulysses S. Grant
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"Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner
life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead,
and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give
in return as much as I have received."
- Albert Einstein
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
- Aristotle
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"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
- Ovid
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"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.
But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure
that your most important decision in the day simply consists
of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow."
- Douglas Pagels
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"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily,
now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on
his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse,
a little later on."
- Elbert Hubbard
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"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to
end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
- Doug Larson
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"Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child
will be going back to school the next day. It would have been
called Independence Day, but that name was already taken."
- Bill Dodds