Quotes About Dignity

Everyone has to feel like they matter.

Second, Aristotle restores the reality, even the dignity, of the individual. Aristotle's forms, unlike Plato's Forms, do not exist separately from individuals. They appear only through the individual. We would know nothing about dogs without individual dogs in the world to observe and study; we would know nothing about justice without individual examples to examine and analyze.

a man's a man for a' that." To the Scot, appearance and outward form mean little. Instead, it is the quality of one's inner self

The study of history is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the only method of learning to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of Fortune. —Polybius (200–118 BCE)

Honor is decency without vanity.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

Mi-e sil? de toate meseriile.MeÅŸteri sau lucr?tori,toÅ£i sunt niÅŸte ??rani nemernici.Mâna care Å£ine condeiul nu-i mai prejos decât mâna care-mpinge plugul.Ce secol al mâinilor!Eu,unul,n-o s? am niciodat? o mân? ca lumea.Åži apoi,slug?rnicia duce prea departe.CerÅŸetoria cinstit? m? umple de mâhnire.UcigaÅŸii sunt la fel de dezgust?tori ca scapeÅ£ii;eu,îns? r?mân neatins,ÅŸi de altfel mi-e totuna.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

el día en pedir, y la noche en conceder. Es el marido quien debería influir en la mujer; pero como las tres cuartas partes de los hombres carecen de carácter, de fuerza y de dignidad, son ellas quienes se hacen cargo a menudo de las cosas... Aquí

At some point in his life, César had realised that no one ever learns from anyone else's mistakes and, consequently, there was only one dignified and proper attitude to be taken by a guardian - which, after all, was what he was - and that consisted in sitting down next to his young ward, taking her by the hand and listening, with infinite kindness, to the evolving story of her loves and griefs, whilst nature took its own wise and inevitable course.

el deber de pelear cuando hay que hacerlo, al margen de la nación y la bandera; que, al cabo, en cualquier nacido no suelen ser una y otra sino puro azar. Hablo de empuñar el acero, afirmar los pies y ajustar el precio de la propia piel a cuchilladas en vez de entregarla como oveja en matadero. Hablo de conocer, y aprovechar, que raras veces la vida ofrece ocasión de perderla con dignidad y con honra.

Lo obsceno es concepto morboso. Para quien vive verdaderamente no hay cosa obscena, para quien vive perdurablemente no hay cosa indigna. Todos nuestros órganos nos expresan. Nuestro sexo es como nuestros ojos o como nuestra inteligencia. Bueno es repetir con Terencio o con Whitman que todas las partes del cuerpo son dignas del canto.

A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?

A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.

When i think of how racist, how Eurocentric our so-called education in amerika is, it staggers my mind. And when i think back to some of those kids who were labeled "troublemakers" and "problem students," i realize that many of them were unsung heroes who fought to maintain some sense of dignity and self-worth.

At this moment, I am not so concerned about myself. Everybody has to die sometime, and all I want is to go with dignity.

She used to be a schoolteacher, but she has no class now.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life—to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be.