Dignity Quote by John Locke

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come…

— Francis Bacon

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are…

— Frederick Lenz

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble,…

— Shoshana Zuboff

“Labor is an antidote for angst and general misery, and the fear that the Devil is going to grab you by the throat at…

— Ann Rice

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Booker T. Washington

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

— Thomas Carlyle

“Pain is a breach in the walls of decline and stagnation.”

— Bryant McGill

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of…

— Philip Sidney

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

— Francis Quarles

“As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days, The rising of the women means the rising of the race. No more the…

— James Oppenheim