Quotes About Dignity

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

Life to me is just so precious. I fail to see the wrong in keeping someone alive who's still got quality of life even if it's only for a few months.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

The right to life is the first among human rights.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.