Dignity Quotes

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

There is even the dignity of vice.

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.