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There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

I think it's undignified if you don't do your job.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.