Quotes About Dignity

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

There is even the dignity of vice.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

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.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?