Dignity Quotes

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.