Quotes About Dignity

We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.

No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

There was something regal about her. She carried herself like she was wearing pink moire. And that powerless complexion glowed. Watching her, it came to me that she must have some Yankee strength that didn't need frippery.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

I sit on the sidewalk with a sign. Maybe you think its humiliating, but it's only humiliating if I feel humiliated, and I don't. What did Eleanor Roosevelt say? 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

To think I could be such a fool as to fall in love! It is quite beneath the dignity of a woman to do such a thing.

It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People

Ä°nsan ruhu ne kadar yüce de yapt?klar? ne kadar aÅŸa??l?k!

Meine Wurde, meine Hoffnung, meine Liebe, mein Mut, das alles halt mich aufrecht und macht mich gut!

The challenge and the dignity make it interesting enough. Besides

Booker T. Washington said, "I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him

Killashandra steeled herself for yet another protocologically correct reception.

I didn't realize what a—comfortless thing respect is.

Nothing at all, except that he is human, and by hanging him we diminish ourselves as well.

And I like their humor," Septimus went on. "They know how to laugh at themselves and each other—they like to laugh, they don't see any sin in it, or any danger to their dignity. They like to argue. They don't feel it a mortal wound if anyone queries what they say, indeed they expect to be questioned.