Labour Day 2025: 20+powerful quotes to show appreciation for workers

Labour Day 2025 quotes: International Workers' Day, popularly known as Labour Day or May Day in many countries, is an annual event dedicated to honouring workers and the working class. This day serves to acknowledge to recognise the hard work, sacrifices, and successes of workers worldwide. The tradition started in the late 1800s, with a major moment being the 1886 protest in the USA for an eight-hour working day.

Labour Day reminds us why workers’ rights and fair treatment are important. It also points out the need for safe and healthy workplaces. In India and in many other countries, Labour Day is a public holiday. Schools, banks, and shops usually stay closed.

As we celebrate Labour Day 2025 today, let’s share these powerful and uplifting quotes to show our respect for workers everywhere:

Inspiring quotes to share on Labour Day 2025

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1. “Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.” — Tony Robbins
2. “Don’t worry when you are not recognised, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” — Abraham Lincoln
3. “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” — Tony Robbins
4. "The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. "No work is insignificant. All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King Jr.
6. “Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.” ― Joseph Joubert
7. “I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There is no substitute for working hard.” —Maria Bartirom
8. "Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure." ― George Sand
9. “Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” — Marian Wright Edelman
10. “Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.” — Carol Moseley Braun
11. “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”? — Benjamin Franklin
12. “We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard
13. “Dare to be honest, and fear no labour.” —Robert Burns
14. "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." - Tim Notke
15. “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” — Kevin Durant
16. “The working class is the backbone of society.” - Friedrich Engels
17. “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play.” —Arnold J. Toynbee
18. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
19. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
20. “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr.
21. “There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
22. “There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realisation that we have accomplished something.” — Henry Ford
23. “As we celebrate Labour Day, we honour the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers’ rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labour force.” — Elizabeth Esty
24. “It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” —Theodore Roosevelt

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