Robert Taft Quotes

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

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.

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to basically collect money and do nothing.

Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.

I always told my girls growing up that I would not baby them through life, and no matter how blessed they are financially, they have to get an education!

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

He who does not work shall not eat

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.

I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.