Quotes About Dignity

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.