Quotes About Dignity

It seems like the world is choosing to become a generation of using big words to box, manipulate, degrade, dehumanize and to abuse other people. Let's choose to respect other people opinions, choices , preferences, lifestyle and life.

No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, I've known people that the world has thrown everything at them to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don't complain. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, played with, and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you.

We have no right to say or do anything that belittles a person in their own eyes. What matters is not what we think of them but what they think of their self.

There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.

I will always hold my head high, I will always take pride in my life and I will walk this world without regret.

When you are a real queen, there is absolutely no reason to try and make people believe that you are one. Because you just are.

My value as a person is not measured by the number of people who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and my word.

Every living thing deserves a certain amount of dignity. "Without dignity, their identity is erased.

learned the hard way. That having a good heart....is something people take advantage of. I believe that we all have value. And we should treat people with respect and value them as well. Sometimes people don't really know respect. I don't know why?? Maybe they were not taught. who knows...? But I treat people the way I want to be treated. We are all important.

but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go through it all and to retain our dignity, purpose, and values as best we can.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed. He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives at Christmas and escorting them to the cemetery when they died. He performed these two social duties for old dignity's sake but conceded nothing further to the conventions which regulate the civic life.

Firea lui simÈ›itoare mai era înc? aprig r?nit? de È™fichiuirile unei vieÈ›i lipsite de elevaÈ›ie È™i demnitate.

Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

I believe you're a good fellow but you have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human individual.

If you have attended the dying, you know what their last moments are like. They anticipate the separation of themselves from the world of the living before you do, and they accept it with dignity and without complaint

Don't wash family linen in public, or with anyone except family.

He saw now she was not just handsome, but rather had a quiet, cumulative beauty. She was a tall woman, middle-aged, whose face was not etched with the stern lines of church folks who've seen too much and done little about it other than pray.

I wouldn't throw her outta bed for eating crackers. She was all class.

I read the book on not being explained to. That's called being an old colored woman, sir.

Being a Negro means showing your best face to the white man every day. You know his wants, his needs, and watch him proper. But he don't know your wants. He don't know your needs or feelings or what's inside you, for you ain't equal to him in no measure. You just a nigger to him. A thing: like a dog or a shovel or a horse.

Your integrity, your dignity, your honor - they aren't for sale. Not ever. Not to anyone.