Quotes About Dignity

But if you want to make a place safe for people to take on culprits, and admit their own bad behaviors too, it's crucial to treat alleged jerks with dignity and respect. That means starting with calm and backstage conversations with them and giving them chances to change. It also means realizing that some people aren't usually jerks, but there is something about the characters they work with, their customers

part of what makes for a skilled consultant, teacher, barista, or other service employee is the ability to deal with jerks in ways that calm them, protect your dignity and sanity, and still keep the money rolling in.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.

Honor does not have to be defended.

His final rejection lasted only three days and he broke out of the tomb victorious. This is the Christ who calls on all the suffering people of the world to throw away all that enslaves them as he did and start to live a life of victory, asserting their full dignity and equality in the world.

The way I always kind of look at it: everything's important and nothing's important. If you're gonna have a drama, have it over something that's worth the time. Some people take it more seriously than others, like a Lowell. But we all end up the same.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

She was magnanimous to former opponents, never retaliating against supporters of her former husband or other adversaries, personal or official.

While he affirms the dignity and significance of human personhood he understands that apart from God man is simply a biological machine, an accident of nature, a cipher.

And if we fail to recognize within the Scriptures our Master's voice speaking his infallible truth to us from his world to our world, we destroy ourselves not only epistemically but also personally, for we abandon the only foundation for the certainty of knowledge and the only "meaning base" by which we may truly know the One infinite, personal God and thereby ourselves as persons of dignity and worth.2

To be without silver is better than to be without honor.

There are rights that you may lose without losing your honour; what makes you lose your honour is not to fight them.

I always thought Obama was "presidential." He treated the office of the presidency with respect. I rarely saw him in the Oval Office with a coat and tie, and he always conducted himself with dignity. He was a man of personal integrity, and in his personal behavior - at least to the extent I could observe it - he was an excellent role model...I thought Obama was first-rate in both intellect and temperament." Page 300

The golden rule of relationships is "Cause no indignity." A loving relationship is one in which both partners take care to protect each other's dignity. A wounded soul heals more slowly than a wounded body, so it is as important to avoid indignity as it is to avoid outright harm.

Awe is an intuition of the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Zeus is never ridiculous. Because his dignity is of no concern to him.

but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of the dignity of a natural death is a terrible deprivation.

As Emerson said: 'Character is higher than intellect.

El nivel del trabajo que ofrecéis al mundo refleja la potencia del respeto por vosotros mismos.

We all have a deep-seated need to feel important.

The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself.

y nos invitó a todos a que nos comprometiéramos no solo a ser los mejores en lo que hacíamos, sino también a tratar a cada persona con una cortesía exquisita y un respeto extraordinario.

Now I wonder, Nicki said. Didn't we all? What it would be like to be one of them, to have power, be seen, be heard, be dude rather than sluts, be jocks or geeks, or bros or nice guys, or boys will be boys, or whatever we wanted instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception, to be in control, to seize control, simply because we happen to have a dick.

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