Dignity Quotes

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

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

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

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

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

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

It is not who is right,
but what is right,
that is of importance.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

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

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

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

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.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

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

Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

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

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.

What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.