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Quotes About Dignity

Grace is the strength of greatness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
Every person Born as human, But Not everyone die as Human
~ Mohammed Zaki Ansari
Badmouthing things and other people is another way to appear smarter in front of the many.It's sad that some people use this dirty trick just to increase their self worth...
~ Adrian Alconera
a little modesty averts disgrace
~ Bemy Wells
In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.
~ D.B. Harrop
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion, On Self-Respect
Honoring what you deserve is the beginning of living.
~ Sravani Saha Nakhro
It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Respect all people as you do your people, and you would be a fine people.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wailOr knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair,And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
~ John Milton
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
~ John Milton
Alice (backed up with the Professor's relentless logic) convinced Louis to shake up the Leadership Council. He was reluctant to do anything that would show disrespect for birds who had worked hard for years to help and serve the colony. Making the moves while preserving the dignity of all was not easy.
~ John P. Kotter
The north of peacebuilding is best articulated as finding our way toward becoming and being local and global human communities characterized by respect, dignity, fairness, cooperation, and the nonviolent resolution of conflict. To understand this north, to read such a compass, requires that we recognize and develop our moral imagination far more intentionally.
~ John Paul Lederach
Señor Jesús, Tú eres el Mesías, el Rey de Israel. Las naciones se postran ante Ti. Dios lleva al mundo a reconocer que eres digno de adoración. Por tanto, ante cualquier oposición que encuentre, con gozo te atribuyo autoridad y dignidad, y traigo estos regalos para decirte que solo Tú puedes satisfacer mi corazón.
~ John Piper
But if Nasser's gift to the Egyptians was their sense of pride, Mubarak's curse is to have created a cultural climate where the only rewarded character traits are shameless opportunism and lack of dignity.
~ John R. Bradley
Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.
~ John Rawls
Humans are supposed to be better than that! I'm embarrassed for my whole damned species.
~ John Ringo
Inhabited by an endless stream of mountebanks, bigots, thieves, embezzlers, and bribe-takers, it would be challenging to violate the dignity of Mexico's legislatures.
~ John Ross
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
~ John Ruskin
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
~ John Shelby Spong
We cannot, therefore, in aspiring to a divine life, overlook the dignity of deed, to make an idol of thought.
~ John Stuart Blackie
Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up from its foundations, and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.
~ John Stuart Mill
A simple test of a civilised human being is how they describe those who have treated them badly.
~ John Sweeney