Quotes About Dignity

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Always make the other person feel important.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.