Quotes About Dignity

I'm not stepping off my throne to address no bum, no chicks that are beneath me and nobody that hasn't worked as hard as I worked for anything.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.

I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.

I don't have any reasons to be disrespectful or throw anybody under the bus.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

If someone throws something, we're just supposed to sit there and wear it and get hit. Nah, man, we're human beings first and foremost.

At the end of the day, we're professional prizefighters - stop acting like street thugs. We're not going to fight in the streets.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show and then buy a t-shirt and then a, like, copy of the show they just saw on CD. That's undignified to me.

A red tie is contrary to the dignity of the tie and of male dress in general.

Owning my identity... ties into my value of dignity.

In this other life, she would not be required to take all the shit that no one else would accept and pretend to be grateful.

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.

Then she took up her practice, not to prove her worth or to be seen, not in dignity or fear, but as though she were giving her whole life away as a gift to the world with every step.

magis quid se dignum foret, quam quid in illos iure fieri posset, quaerebant.

Honour is not bestowed upon merit.

After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so.

Mr. Humphrey's bluster died under the duchess's unwavering gaze. His nose twitched. "Yes, well, indeed. It is all highly irregular." Her grace smiled gently. "Duchesses can be 'highly irregular,' Mr. Humphrey. It's one of the perks of the position.

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

I believe that the core battle of our day is the battle to defend the inherent dignity of each and every person, the inherent beauty of each and every soul to be respected and treated as beautiful, unique, and sacred child of a loving God. No matter where they are, no matter what they look like, no matter what their status, each is noble and should be treated as such. The beauty of the individual is truth and we know it in our hearts.