Quotes About Dignity

He who is less than just is less than man.

I never thought of asking anyone to do it for me. Somethings wrong with me. In a time of trouble should people not be able to ask help without feeling demeaned?

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble

At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***!

The moral values and integrity of our nation, and the long, difficult, fraught history of our efforts to uphold them at home and abroad, are the test of every American generation. Will we act in this world with respect for our founding conviction that all people have equal dignity in the eyes of God and should be accorded the same respect by the laws and governments of men? That is the most important question history ever asks of us.

If you cannot travel honorably, and without begging, I should advise you to stay at home.

No nation will ever respect us as long as we beg for that which we can do for ourselves. There has never been a leader of our people who went all-out to set up an economic plan for our people. I use the saying of Jesus, "All before me were thieves and robbers.

Euthanasia is a topic that taps into deeply personal views of dignity and fear but, mostly, spirituality.

She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. "Live and learn, child," he said. "Everybody's worthy of respect.

She should have been in her seventies, but she looked trim in a violet suit, discreet diamonds glittering in her ears. Her shoes were sensible for walking.

Jane drew herself up, chin high and shoulders back, and extended her hand. It was half the gesture of a Queen to a Queen, and half an offering to a wild animal, and Matthew bit his lips on a smile when he noticed.

She tossed her hair behind her shoulder. Not a coquette's gesture, but a queen's.

Somehow she managed to enter the corridor, third in line, but dripping all the dignity she could master, and perversely glad she'd smoothed her hair.

Admit nothing. An iron dignity is an unbroachable defense.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.

A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

Art is despair with dignity.

Art is despait with dignity.

Nero's insistence on entering himself in singing competitions and athletic contests, where being awarded the supreme prize was a surprise only to him, was perceived as undignified. Emperors sponsored games; they were not supposed to become part of the spectacle.