Dignity Quotes

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.

I want to age with some dignity.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs and treating it with dignity and love.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

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

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

Dignity and love do not blend.

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?