Dignity Quotes

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

Treat people with dignity and respect.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.

When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.