Dignity Quotes

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

[Ronald] Reagan talked to people across the world and he was very successful in communicating and treating people with dignity and respect, but putting America first in every single we do.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

Treat everyone on the organization with respect and dignity whether it be the janitor or the president.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true humanism.

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.

I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.