Quotes About Dignity

Some things should remain private.

I feel like there's a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we've evened out. And I don't need to even that out because if somebody's being negative, I need to be the better person.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

If someone doesn't want me working their club, they're not going to hear from me again. I'm not going to fight or complain about it. I'd rather go someplace else.

Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

No, that was my privilege.

Never compromise your "Self-respect" for "Love". If feel like you are loosing your "Self-respect" for "Love" Tell them you can keep your "love" and I will keep my "Self-respect

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.

She spent the first half of her life alone. For the second half, she longed for a man of dignity to rescue her.

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

If he treats you a choice like A, B, C, and D, help him understand that YOU are not belong in the choices.

If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways.

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.

That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest my days with dignity and meaning, a pattern of behavior through which man might most articulately express his devotion to his fellows.

My father had two favorite sayings. One is a saying about samurai. It is a kind of proverb that says a samurai must keep to a higher standard than the common man. Even if he has nothing to eat, he pretends that he has plenty, meaning that a samurai never lets go of his pride.

I lament that women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Yolandi, the central character in the book All My Puny Sorrows says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

?ovje?e, sjeti se da si ravan onome pred kim se ponizuješ, i ne ponizuj se! Hodaj uspravno, ne pla?i pred tu?im vratima, jer iza tih vrata za tebe nema nikoga, pljusni i pljuni, ali se ne ponizuj.

Die as a sacrifice is more worthy then a suicide

Ted, he said, when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live? I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.