Dignity Quotes

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest to...

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most s...

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be...

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the ...

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

What's that?""The laundry basket?""No, next to it.""I don't see anything next to it.""It's my last s...

It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, a...

I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? A...

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meani...

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen...

We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed t...

What do you think dignity's all about?'The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by...

I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that ...

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to r...

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too ...

I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the...

I'm single because I was born that way.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the...

So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linge...

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human...

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

All labor has dignity.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does ...

.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people d...

Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from...

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a f...

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment...

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's ...

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to preven...

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we ...

To assert dignity is to lose it.

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other time...

Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient i...

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thin...

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny an...

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principl...

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...

You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west," he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten t...

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the ...

Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would ...

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that...

I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed see...

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on...

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name ...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be ...

The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the...

From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the s...

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if y...

the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but...

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive el...

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, the...

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to ones...

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peac...

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Havi...

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."...

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those w...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the ...

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our ...

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his ...

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live,...

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a ...

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...

There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, ac...

I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and pen...

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, u...

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. W...

You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified,...