Quotes About Dignity

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

We often choose knowing over goodness. We'd rather know what's going to happen than expect to be treated with respect and worth.

I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

If it violates me physically, then it's not worth it to me. There will always be another job where you don't have to take your clothes off or have a gutter mouth.

Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.

Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.

People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted them to be proud to say that they were Bruno Sammartino's mother and father.

I actually don't like boxers who talk too much.

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.

I believe one's sexuality is one's own business. I really don't go around discussing it. Call me 'old school' on that topic.