Dignity Of Work Quotes

• No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Humanity, Labor

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Independent, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• We work to become, not to acquire.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent Women, Labor Day, Civil War

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, World, Matter

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Independent, Wealth, Enough

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, Essentials, Dignity

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Success, Honesty, Work

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Faith, Work, Labor Day

  "The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci".

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• They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Success, Work

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• Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent Women, Labor Day, Civil War

  "Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life".

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• There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

  Pope Francis

  Stress, People, Thought Provoking

  Pope Francis' address to the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2013.

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• The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

  George Meany

  Justice, Goal, Unions

  Archie Robinson, George Meany (1981). “George Meany and his times: a biography”, Simon & Schuster

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• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Rights, Humanity

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• My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

  Donald Trump

  Dad, Men, People

  Source: time.com

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• Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

  Sargent Shriver

  Believe, Sacrifice, Giving

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• The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

  Mitt Romney

  Responsibility, Self, Foundation

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