Quotes About Dignity

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

Though one's occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.