Dignity Quotations | Page 6

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

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

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.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

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

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.

I want to age with some dignity.

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

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

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

Dignity belongs to the conquered....

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

Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth ...

Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were connected with that of a son; and there was no son who must not be disturbed and disquieted by imputations on his father.

Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

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

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

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

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

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

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly situated off to stage right—and happily so. What freedom there is in such truth! We are inherently important and included, yet not burdened with manufacturing or sustaining that private importance. Our dignity is given by God, and we are freed from ourselves!

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

California, the department store state.

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

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Death deserves dignity.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

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.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

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.

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.

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.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

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

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

I don't think it's wise for members to try and outline a strategy other than to make sure these hearings are comprehensive and they're done with dignity and respect for the nominee. The future will take care of itself.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as if they were afraid to lose their dignity by too much familiarity.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.