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Quotes About Dignity

Leisure with dignity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
~ William Shakespeare
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
~ William E. Conway, Jr.
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.
~ Tariq Ramadan
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
~ Morrissey
A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
~ Vincent Piazza
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
~ Statius
I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.
~ Richard Carmona
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
~ Mason Cooley
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
~ Jane Addams
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
~ Paul Wellstone
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~ Adnan
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
~ Alfred de Musset
The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
~ Bruce Catton
Hillary Clinton is only talking about families who come here in violation of the law. We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity. So important.
~ Donald Trump
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
~ George Stillman Hillard
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
~ Henry Rollins
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
~ Horace Walpole
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
~ Howard Fast