Doug Ducey Quotes

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

I want to earn it, I don't want anything given to me.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you're born rich, people just associate you with what you've been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do.

Work alone is noble.

Work—honest work—is not degrading. The man who by honest toil earns an honest living is a peer of the realm.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

I would rather clean than beg.

I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

I've always been a proud man.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

We may be poor but we have our dignity.

The old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. We in America have very little sense of interdependence.