Quotes About Dignity

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

Las conquistas sin riesgos son sueños sin méritos. Nadie es digno de sus sueños si no utiliza sus derrotas para cultivarlos.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

I would rather clean than beg.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

It is precisely because of the unstable and unpredictable nature of life and history that we draw on fiction to lend in retrospect sense, unity, and dignity to fragmented lives and times.

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.

Can the skipper sail his bucket without sailors? Or can the engineer, no matter how clever he is, build a locomotive without workers? Nevertheless, the worker has to stand with his cap in hand and beg for a job. He has to stand there like a dog about to be beaten.

Please, I'm a politician's wife. I have a set of my own.

The wisdom of conversation ought not to be over much affected, but much less despised; for it hath not only an honour in itself, but an influence also into business and government.

As the slap-dash sentences of a rushing critic express the hasty impatience of modern manners; so the deliberate emphasis, the slow acumen, the steady argument, the impressive narration bring before us what is now a tradition, the picture of the correct eighteenth-century gentleman, who never failed in a measured politeness, partly because it was due in propriety towards others, and partly because from his own dignity it was due most obviously to himself.

The conspicuous dignity awakens the sentiment of reverence, and men, often very undignified, seize the occasion to govern by means of it.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.