Quotes About Dignity

That she should have been ennobled and gained in dignity through being prostituted was a source of surprise, and yet dignity was indeed from within, and her bearing bespoke calm, while on her face could be detected the serenity and imperceptible smile that one surmises rather than actually sees in the eyes of hermits.

such modesty and shame in a whore! Just

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

The humility of a warrior is not the same humility as that of a servile man. The warrior does not lower his head to anyone, and nor does he allow anyone to bow before him. The servile man, on the other hand, kneels before anyone he believes to be more powerful, and demands that the people under his command behave in a similar fashion before him.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity. Your

Because he does not know what it is to spend months and years doing nothing. Either because he does not love what he does; no one wishes to be separated from the woman he loves, no one wants to stop doing that which he loves. Or it is because there is no dignity in his going about his work - he has forgotten that work was created to help man, not humiliate him.

Well, I'm working on a project now with some women who are working as strippers." I liked the way she said that: "women who are working as strippers." Not "strippers." She made stripping what they did for a living, not who they were.

Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife and I have borne him sons, and you are still a slave.

Yes, you paid money for me, she answered, but that does not make me yours. A human creature cannot be bought whole.

There is no dignity to life except with order

Resolved," wrote a girl in 1892, "to think before speaking. To work seriously. To be self-restrained in conversations and actions. Not to let my thoughts wander. To be dignified. Interest myself more in others." And one hundred years later: "I will try to make myself better in any way I possibly can. . . . I will lose weight, get new lenses, already got new haircut, good makeup, new clothes and accessories.

A self-confident person isn't boastful or pushy but is secure with herself in a way that inspires confidence in others. She values herself regardless of her physical attributes or individual talents, understanding that honor and character are what really matter.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

If we're going to have arguments, let's have arguments — but let's make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.