Quotes About Dignity

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

We need to give folks an opportunity, not a hand out.

I'm never one to act a fool. Not at home and not in public.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

I wouldn't want anyone to think I was less than respectful for the people with whom I work.

First and foremost, I'm human. I'm a person.

May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.

I would simply not compromise on the fundamental rights of people.

You know, all work has dignity. I fundamentally believe that. So all paychecks must have dignity.

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When

Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least decent of her to care...But

When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

All women are princesses , it is our right.

It's true, she said. Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.

The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.

Por más harapos y jirones que vista, en mi interior puedo seguir siendo una princesa. María Antonieta en prisión, vestida de negro e insultada por su pueblo, tuvo más altura que cuando todo iba bien en la corte de Versalles —seguía cavilando Sara —. Es fácil parecer una princesa vistiendo ropajes de paño dorado, pero conducirse como tal sin que nadie lo sospeche, eso sí que es un gran triunfo

Yes, miss, you are, she cried, and her words were all broken. Whats'ever 'appens to you—whats'ever—you'd be a princess all the same—an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."- Page. 164

It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.