Dignity Of Labor Quotes

#1. One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.

Judith Martin

#2. Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.

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#3. The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.

Edwin Osgood Grover

#4. A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

#5. Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

Oscar Wilde

#6. In my opinion, one of the answers to the question of underdevelopment of nations, is in the CULTURE of DIGNITY OF LABOR.

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#7. DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.

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#8. 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

#9. They were always cold, and usually hungry as well. Only Boxer and Clover never lost heart. Squealer made excellent speeches on the joy of service and the dignity of labor, but the other animals found more inspiration in Boxer's strength and his never-failing cry of I will work harder!

George Orwell

#10. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Jon Carroll

#12. There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

Herbert Marcuse

#15. I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

George Eliot

#16. Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

Mike Huckabee

#17. The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.

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#18. Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?
She had shaken her head slowly.
Men and women who can't get over their past ... That's what ghosts are.

Stephen King

#19. When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Thorstein Veblen

#21. There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

Nevil Shute

#22. Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.

Simone Elkeles

#23. Posturing is funny to me.

Casey Wilson

#24. All labor has dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#25. I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.

Billy Graham

#26. 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

#27. To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.

Wayde Goodall

#28. Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Bill Hybels

#29. Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

Kacey Musgraves

#30. If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

Orestes Brownson

#31. No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#32. the key to improved mental performance of almost any sort is the development of mental structures that make it possible to avoid the limitations of short-term memory and deal effectively with large amounts of information at once.

Anders Ericsson

#33. One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.

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#34. Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#35. What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.

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