Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

I like to work.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

The post of honour is a private station.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

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

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.