Dignity Quotes
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.
Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.
Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.
We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.
I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.
I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.
The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.
Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.
Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.
A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.
