Each week we like to share a few inspiring quotes from an entrepreneur who has found success. From leaders like Steve Jobs and Marissa Mayer to Tony Hsieh and Herb Kelleher, these leaders have a lot of experience to share when it comes to taking a small business and making it successful.
Today for Labor Day, we’re going to do something a little different. Instead of several quotes from a single leader, we’ve collected seven quotes from various leaders on the subject of working. Here are the Labor Day quotes we think you’ll find inspirational:
“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”
—Bill Cosby“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
—John D. Rockefeller“No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”
—Bertrand Russell“Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness.”
—Greek Proverb“Without labor nothing prospers.”
—Sophocles“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
And finally…
“Take a rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
—Ovid
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….and also another latin proverb: ora et labora?