Dignity Quotes

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

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.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.

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

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

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

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect