Quotes About Dignity

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.

Treat all people-even the most unsightly beetles-as though they were angels sent from heaven.

To slur and sully, to belittle and drag down—that was what the world always tried to do.

She was hardly more affable than a cameo.

When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.

A person is worth something simply because he is a person.

If there was anything Jesus wanted everyone to understand, it was this: a person is worth something simply because he or she is a person.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Don't deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

For a Fur Person is a cat whom human beings love in the right way, allowing him to keep his dignity, his reserve and his freedom. And a Fur Person is a cat who has come to love one or, in very exceptional cases, two human beings and who has decided to stay with them as long as he lives. This can only happen if the human being has imagined part of himself into a cat just as the cat has imagined part of himself into a human being. It is a mutual exchange.

One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

If we lose love and self respect for each other,this is how we finally die

Later he explained that when a person is beating you you should scream as loud as possible; maybe the whipper will become embarrassed or else some sympathetic soul might come to your rescue.

Dignity doesn't just mean always being stiff and composed. It means a belief in oneself, that one is worthy of the best. Dignity means that what I have to say is important, and I will say it when it's important for me to say it. Dignity really means that I deserve the best treatment I can receive. And that I have the responsibility to give the best treatment I can to other people.