Quotes About Dignity

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

I didn't do this for payment," insisted Mrs. Watson, now looking insulted. The maharani leaned toward her. "I know that. And I am grateful. But remember what you told me all those years ago? That women should be valued for their work and that women, especially, should not devalue the work of other women.

The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, "We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we all can achieve… the hope that resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, or our doctors, have done wrong.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we call all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that proceeded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity.

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society's, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person's humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

The dignity that we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. Ars moriendi as ars vivendi: The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that preceded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity.

The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

For shame, Miss Hunt. If your grandfather learned you had taken the liberty of inspecting the tools of one of his workers, he might just tan your hide.

Don't judge people in their reduced circumstances, nobody aspires to be there.

Always speak up and never talk down.

Love is not an honorable sentiment

Ne jau par savu godu ir j?c?n?s. No vis?m šai pasaul? iesp?jamaj?m darb?b?m karš ir tas, kur? goda ir vismaz?k. Vien?gais gods ir c?n?ties un mirt tikai t?p?c, lai karš beigtos un vairs nekad neb?tu vajadz?bas karot atkal. Gods ir saprast, kad j?karo, un prast apst?ties, kad karošanai var dar?t galu.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.

The war could not be won – but could it be ended with honour?

The language should be accorded just the same dignity and respect as those other standards that science was then also defining.

There is a Sacerdotall dignitie in my native Countrey contiguate to me, where I now contemplate: which your worshipfull benignitie could sone impenetrate for mee, if it would like you to extend your sedules, and collaude me in them to the right honourable lord Chaunceller, or rather Archgrammacian of Englande.

Society was supposed to be better than its criminals, never stooping to their level of depravity.

I'm poor, not homeless.

Nous ne te voulons pas de mal, mais nous avons un sens africain de la race. Les blancs sont des blancs, mais vous autres descendants d'esclaves, vous n'êtes rien. Ce n'est pas ta faute, et ce n'est pas la nôtre : tu n'es rien. Tu es un, comme chaque poisson du fleuve.

La dignità si deve mantenere, sempre, ma l'orgoglio porta male.