Work Value Quotes

I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

Labor is no disgrace.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.

A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).

You have to put a market value on what you do.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour.

… the work of one Negro was worth more than that of four Indians.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

The workman still is greater than his work.

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

If you're doing the same work, you should get the same amount of money, and you should get the same respect. It's about valuation. It's about not being afraid to ask for those things.

There's a trend for people wanting more meaning in their work and pursuing something in the day-to-day that is valuable rather than working as a means to the end.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

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

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value

I know at first-hand the importance of hard work and the value of work experience.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.