Quotes About Dignity

I have heard that he is proud, but also honourable and, most importantly of all, amenable to reason

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

It is not righteousness to outragea brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Silence gives the proper grace to women.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.

Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.

The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment

Christ Himself has said: They are no longer two, but they are one flesh (Matt. 19:6). Is it strange then, if they are one flesh, that they should have one tongue and should say the same words, since they are one flesh, Head and body? Let us therefore hear them as one. But let us listen to the Head speaking as Head, and to the body speaking as the body. We do not separate the two realities, but two different dignities; for the Head saves, and the body is saved.

A man is a beautiful thing, a very beautiful thing. But some men forget this. And sometimes they try to keep other men captive. They buy and sell people, as if human beings are no more than cattle. But only a fool believes he can really own another man, and only a fool will try. Mr. Finley may own my body, but I have a heart and I have a mind, and he can never own these. Inside of me, I'm too powerful to be owned by anyone. Inside, I am like the sun.

La prego, non si disturbi... l'unico diritto umano che alla fine ti resta è quello di crepare come credi... senza essere scocciato dall'aiuto altrui.

alguien realmente sabio debe aprender que la verdadera dignidad de la vejez y de su vida es la resignación. Las más bellas cartas, las más armoniosas, proceden de esta época de íntimo recogimiento.

Una palabra de honor siempre sirve a la mujer de barandilla para agarrarse antes de caer.

Neque turpis mors forti viro potest accedere. Para las almas fuertes no hay muerte ignominiosa.

At eighty-five, she had paid the inevitable tribute to old age. Her sight was failing, she was growing deaf, she had lost all her teeth, she walked with difficulty. To so proud, so autocratic a woman what could seem more terrible than to expose her infirmities to hostile eyes?

O femeie este cu atît mai nobil? È™i mai cinstit? cu cît urmeaz?, liber?, sentimentul ei sincer, îndelung încercat – È™i o regin? este cu atît mai regal?, cu cît se poart? cît mai omeneÈ™te.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

We aren't the kind of people who talk about our problems.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.