Quotes About Dignity

I prefer to be upright and contained -- an urn in daylight.

will be less dignified, more painful, death will be sooner, (it is no longer possible to be both human and alive) : lying piled with the others, your face and body covered so thickly with scars only the eyes show through.

He wouldn't have much of a life out there, picking through garbage dumps and fighting off scavengers, but at least he'd be in charge of himself again.

They were reducing us to animals—to penned-up animals—to our animal nature. They were rubbing our noses in that nature. We were to consider ourselves subhuman.

Todas queremos que nuestro enamorado sea amado por una mujer digna de él, pero jamás que sea más digna que nosotras. —Habladme de esta casa —dije—.

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled.   On

You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming-Rhett Butler

marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything less than yourself.

Don't ever interrupt me again. And next time you do, show me the proper respect.

I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.