Quotes About Dignity

There are always a few drops left in the bottle of indignity.

A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

If you want to be taken seriously, be serious. Take yourself seriously.

I earn my own respect, I told Emilie. I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

My view is that no idea is above scrutiny, and no people are beneath dignity.

The Koran points to another contemptible characteristic of the Jews: their craven desire to live, no matter at what price and regardless of quality, honor, and dignity.

Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community.

I was struck by the importance of dignity as a historical force. "What was horrible about the communist rule," Tatjana told us, "was that the man in front of you ordering you around was very stupid, and you had to listen to him." Even amid jailings and torture, these smaller humiliations ground people down.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat.

La mia anima ha la stessa importanza dell'anima di una principessa, anche se come rango io mi trovo alla pari del più umile schiavo.

But a caution, Harriet! — Never, never, let foolish dreams claim a moment of your attention — Imminent as seemed the danger, your superstition made more dreadful to you than otherwise it would have been. You have a mind superior to such foibles: Act up to its native dignity, and let not the follies of your nurses, in your infantile state, be carried into your maturer age, to depreciate your womanly reason. Do you think I don't dream, as well as you?

No man, Mr. Reeves, would be more ready than myself to ask pardon, even of my inferior, had I done a wrong thing: But never should a prince make me stoop to disavow a right one.

But gomers are not just dear old people," said Fats. "Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them. We're cruel to the gomers, by saving them, and they're cruel to us, by fighting tooth and nail against our trying to save them. They hurt us, we hurt them.

GOMER: Get Out of My Emergency Room; "a human being who has lost—often through age—what goes into being a human being" (the Fat Man).

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man may clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it.

I made the decision to do everything in my power to prevent the execution of a plan that was going to compromise Bulgaria in the eyes of the world and brand it with a mark of shame that it did not deserve.

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

you should never be surprised when people treat you with respect. You should expect it.