No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. WashingtonIt’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.
Angelina JolieAll 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.
Benjamin FranklinI will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
Barack ObamaMen cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John RuskinWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. ForbesBig pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon HillThe reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert FrostLet the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola TeslaOne should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich NietzscheWork is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil GibranBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas CarlyleThe post of honour is a private station.
Joseph AddisonIf you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest HemingwayWe 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.
Michelle ObamaDespite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Stephen CoveyI don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody AllenI will never retire unless I have to.
Dolly PartonOne of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Hunter S. ThompsonWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John RuskinScrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Richard M. NixonNothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
John WayneA man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas CarlyleThe work is the work. The work is not me.
Frank OceanIf you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
Anthony BourdainAnd 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.
Michelle ObamaAmerica 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.
George W. BushEveryone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon HillMy experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor RooseveltThere is spontaneity to my work.
Lady GagaI like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint EastwoodChristmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
Kobe BryantI’m a workin‘ girl.
Dolly PartonI 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.
Ludwig van BeethovenMen were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John RuskinI 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.
Paulo CoelhoEarly on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles BukowskiI think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
Lady GagaDon’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
Karl LagerfeldA real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor DostoevskyAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine HepburnMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya AngelouThe first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John RuskinThe 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.
Fidel CastroI have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
Julius CaesarDignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles DickensLabor 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 LincolnESPN is a great organization to work for.
Lou HoltzWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingI don’t think I am evangelical in my work.
J. K. RowlingWell, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
Joe BidenA man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard ShawFor people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
Robert KiyosakiAll labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother TeresaI never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt DisneyLet there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson MandelaWork 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.
Abraham MaslowA 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.
Albert CamusAny man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela