Quotes About Dignity

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.

Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

God doesn't want his people to go second-class.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

23Pride ends in humiliation,         while humility brings honor.

It was a world, in other words, that gave equal weight to modesty and dignity as to pomp, comfort, and splendor.

Over the years the Sephardim in America had gradually modified their religious services to conform more closely to the prevailing Protestant ways. Early in the 1800's Temple Shearith Israel had introduced English into the service. The cantors, or chazonim, began to assume the dignity, and the dress, of Protestant clergymen and were called "Reverend." The public auctioning of honors, which began to seem undignified, was discontinued.

Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

If I had ever nurtured any notions of nobility, bravery, courage, dignity, or the like, these exalted qualities were embodied in the faces I saw. Clear-eyed, firm-jawed, virile, strong, and proud— they were the living embodiments of every red-blooded boy's childhood fantasy of glorious manhood: heroism incarnate. That they were going to kill me seemed a thing of piddling consequence.

For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.

Gone are the days when 19-inch biceps would once command respect. A Jedi doesn't walk around with their arms flexed and with a thousand yard stare in their eyes. They walk with a good posture, their head held high and with a serious, yet friendly, look on their face.

I believe the most degrading thing in the world is to be treated worse than a starving dog by five growling, muscle-bound thugs, better known as screws!

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.