Dignity Quotes

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

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The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.

I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

The dignity of history.

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

America is a nation of immigrants, and we should treat those who come to our country with dignity and respect.

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Dignity is more important than wealth.

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.