Dignity Quotes

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.

the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

You can disagree, but it's a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.