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Dignity Of Work Quotes

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

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Uplifting, Dignity Of Work, Humanity
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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

Abraham Lincoln
Independent Women, Dignity Of Work, Labor Day
Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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

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

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, Dignity Of Work, Labor Day
"Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life".

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, Dignity Of Work

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

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, Dignity Of Work

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, Dignity Of Work, Self

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, Dignity Of Work
Source: time.com

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