Quotes About Dignity

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Respect yourself most of all.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.

For the first few years after such a law was passed there might occasionally be undignified scenes, but in Britain individual liberty is so often curtailed for the common good. Order would soon prevail.

That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.

Dependency does not reduce value but rather grants dignity, a notion fundamentally counter to those for whom the freedom of birds is insulting. God's glory does not diminish ours, and our dignity is not a threat to God, for God's own glory, in part, is us. The glory of God is present to things as the graciousness of their being; things are never just themselves, they carry the weight of God along with them.

A life with purpose can only end in honor.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Who among the angels will hear me if I cry? I stand in the dank and he dark, amid my wasted life, not knowing what to do, unable to make any decision, and weep. My hopes were extinguished a long while ago, and now any tinder of dignity follows suit.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

WE come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. 58

No civilized society can thrive upon victims whose humanity has been permanently mutilated

I want to protect each person's boundaries. Once you begin to yield the slightest ground on some pretext, you're ultimately left with nothing.

Don't quote the shastras to defend your way of honouring the female sex! That is not honour.

They shan't humiliate me to please themselves.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

We Cubans are voting for our new constitution, we're voting for Latin America and the Caribbean. We're also voting for Venezuela, we're defending Venezuela because in Venezuela the continent's dignity is in play.

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

I don't do any vulgar movements.