Respect for Work Quotes

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

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

If it's one thing my parents did right, it was teaching me to have a good work ethic, and I plan on doing the same with my kids!

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

I learned as my dad's kid that unless you physically can't get there, unless you physically can't do it, you need to show up for work.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

Yes, I do feel a deep responsibility every time, every character, everything that I do.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.