Dignity Quotes

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Leisure with dignity.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

Death deserves dignity.

The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.