Dignity Quotations | Page 7

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

Glory is like a circle in the water

Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Hillary Clinton is only talking about families who come here in violation of the law. We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity. So important.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

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.

Why should we be frightened? No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living Americans, those Americans living in this land today.

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

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

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.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

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

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

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

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

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.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Love and dignity do not dwell together.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

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.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.

If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each ... that's good.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

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

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

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

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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

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

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won't settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.

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.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.