Quotes About Dignity

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.