Browsing Topic Best Social Work Quotes

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Politics is social work with power.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

…I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor–they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it’s nominated for an Oscar. That’s an unusual experience for me, ’cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain’t no Oscar. It’s social work and a box of condoms is what that is.

Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what’s happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren’t the way they used to be.

My dear girl, don’t talk nonsense to me! You’re lazy, that’s all that’s wrong with you. Why don’t you take up social work?

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I thought I’d go about saving the world one person at a time. I worked with kids, teenagers mostly, in neighborhood centers, on the streets, and eventually in a drop-in center.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the way to get a special life.

The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they’re getting on or whether they’re not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism… There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.