Quotes About Dignity

Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.

You can never see my tears behind my anger and smile. The only thing you can see is my respect for you, because you deserve for it....

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

Knowing he had done wrong, prepared to make amends, settle his business. Determined to return to Brokeland, open the doors wide to the angel of retail death, and run the place into the ground all by himself, if that was what it took-but to fail calmly, to fail with style, to fail above all with that true dignity, unknown to his wife or his partner, which lay in never tripping out, never showing offense or hurt to those who had offended or hurt you.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.

civil unrest instead of rioting.

Beauty and dignity were illusions fostered by the company of children, sustained for the benefit of children.

All members of a Cabinet are referred to as Right. Honorable Gentlemen. There are only three things wrong with such a title ...

What's so clever about working hard ? he said to Momo. Anyone can get rich quick that way, but who wants to look like the people who've sold themselves body and soul for money's sake ? Well, they can count me out. Even if there are times when I don't have the price of a cup of coffee, I'm still me. Guido's still Guido!

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Social well-being Ã¢â'¬Â¦ depends upon cohesion and solidarity. It implies the existence, not merely of opportunities to ascend, but of a high level of general culture, and a strong sense of common interests.… Individual happiness does not only require that men should be free to rise to new positions of comfort and distinction; it also requires that they should be able to lead a life of dignity and culture, whether they rise or not.4

The greatest trick the CDC ever pulled was convincing the world containment wasn't possible," she said. "Our dignity was lost in not even trying to contain it.

If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Every single person on the planet has equal humanity.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.