Work Values Quotes

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.

I've always worked - I can't stay at home and do Cokes and teas, although I think that for those people who want to do that, then that's surely important to them.

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

Work alone is noble.

The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

Truth be told, I decided years ago not to call it a job, because I know people who work - my mother worked, hard.

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work.

Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

If you really want to see more work that reflects your values, you have to produce it. You have to be a contributor to the business.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.