Dignity Quotes

Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.

Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

I thought there was something in Ted Cruz's dignity that prevented him by endorsing a candidate like that, because that was the best explanation of what he did.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss them aside, so in time they become our dignity.

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

No dignity without distance.