Labor Day is designed to honor ALL who labor – hope you have an restful day. Enjoy some quotes and poem below to celebrate the fruits of your labors. Have a great week.
Thank you to all those people who labor and get very little recognition. This is your day! If you are working today, thank you again!
–David Bodner
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
— Doug Larson
A hundred times every day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
— Albert Einstein
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
— Theodore Roosevelt
They Said it couldn’t be Done
— by Edgar Guest
Somebody said it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing and he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one has ever done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took of his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing and he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
Edgar A. Guest began his career at the Detroit Free Press in 1895 and was Michigan’s Poet Laureate
