Quotes About Dignity

When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All

Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?

But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face; It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists; It is in his walk, the carraige of his next, the flex of his waist and knees--dress does not hide him; The strong, sweet supple quality he has, strikes through the cotton and flannel; To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more; You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.

He who throws dirt is losing ground

More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value.

Madam," he said, speaking very softly into her face. "I do not want your money. My wife does not want it. And my son will not have it. Cram it up your hole, aye?

It hadn't occurred to him that if she had little else, it would be that much more important to Joan Findlay to cling to her one valuable possession-her pride.

What sort of mother talks about whores on her deathbed? Your mother wouldn't do that, would she? I have no idea," Grey said, "The situation has fortunately not arisen.

I thought he'd have an apoplexy on the spot," Grey said, lips twitching. "Likely wishes he had." Grey looked at Tom, Tom at Grey, and they burst into suffocated snorts of laughter at the memory of the Honorable Mr. Braythwaite's face on this occasion. "Come, come," Lord John said, getting himself under control. "This will never do. Have you—

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

I do not like negative attacks.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.

I never went to the Sonics and asked for more money. I didn't ask for another dollar.

You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

I'm not going to sit there and be a doormat, you know what I mean?

Never downplay nobody.

I don't like dragging people.

I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.

The only respect you should have is the one you earn.

You've just got to earn my respect.

I can earn money any time but I shouldn't lose my respect.