Quotes About Dignity

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

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

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

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

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

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.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.