Quotes About Dignity

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

You can disagree, but it's a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.