For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
Quotes about menial (15 Quotes)
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
If you want to completely tear yourself away from your home, your family and all you've ever known if you want to endure months and years of a Spartan lifestyle and a harsh disciplinary regime and if you don't mind carrying out the most menial tasks with only the bare minimum of material, then by all means join the French Foreign Legion.
The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyre
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now Not tomorrow.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Other migrant children also appreciate the chance not to be outsiders for once -- and to avoid the teasing they often suffer at mainstream schools. Americans have a problem with migrants, ... They want them to do the menial jobs, but don't want them living in the community.
The destruction menial labor has done on my psyche is beyond repair.
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. John Crowe Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.
It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Such menial duties but her wayOf looking at them lent a graceTo things the world deemed commonplace.
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
No section of society can maintain aristocratic amenities and elegancies without a submerged race, whether slaves of another breed or the unprivileged of its own, to do the hard and menial labor. Australia began with manacled slaves...