Dignity Quotes
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Dignity Quotes & Sayings
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A lady kept up appearances and never lost her dignity - even when her world had just shattered around her in the stall of the women's bathroom.
— Carolyn Brown
Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
The dignity of a nation is derived from the dignity of its citizens.
— Debasish Mridha
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.
— Sandra Bernhard
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
— James Bryant Conant
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
— Pope John Paul II
I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence.
— Bette Lee Crosby
Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
— John Ashcroft
Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".
— John Wooden
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
— Blaise Pascal
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
— Fausto Cercignani
Nothing is so essential as dignity ... Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
— Sarah Addison Allen
I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.
— Norbert Elias
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
— Rebecca Solnit
Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
To assert dignity is to lose it.
— Rex Stout
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
— William Boyd
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
— Dennis Miller
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
— Jackie Robinson
![Dignity Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt: Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/dignity-quotes-by-theodore-roosevelt-179451.jpg "Dignity Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt: Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.")
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
— Theodore Roosevelt
People live quiet lives and that's okay. There's dignity in that, no matter what you may think.
— Jeff Zentner
Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.
— Avijeet Das
To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
— Yann Martel
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
— John Milton
She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.
— Taheyya Kariokka
Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.
— Flannery O'Connor
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.- Aristotle — Aristotle.
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
— Pope Francis
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.
— Kurt Cobain
MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
— Ambrose Bierce
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,
— Martin Luther King Jr.
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
— William Hazlitt
Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
— Vaclav Havel
You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.
— John M. Perkins
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
— Martin Amis
Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.
— Aurin Squire
One shouldn't ever do anything to protect one's dignity. You either have it or you don't.
— Mark Helprin
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Humbleness is always grace; always dignity
— James Russell Lowell
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.
— Pope Francis
All labor has dignity.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
— Andrew Cuomo
Haste denies all acts their dignity.
— Dante Alighieri
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
— Dian Fossey
The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly
— Pope Francis
How long before my dignity is reclaimed?
— Alanis Morissette
I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.
— Pope Francis
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace
— Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
— David Mamet
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
— George Sand
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
— Imelda Marcos
Silence is victory and patience is glory.Let silence speak our identity
and let patience keep our dignity. — Aram Seriteratai
For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold ... there is a peace about death that soothes me.
— John Christie
Human dignity is more precious than prestige ...
— Claude McKay
If, then, we are thus citizens of heaven, let our walk and actions be consistent with our high dignity.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Without dignity, identity is erased.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Human dignity should be without borders.
— Geena Rocero
My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
— Adam Savage
There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.
— Obert Skye
