Quotes About Dignity

Conquering cities may not be held against kings, but kicking like an ass should be.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

Encourage the women in your life—your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters—to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

It is impossible to establish a real dialogue with someone who does not consider you an equal (Fifty Shades of Feminism)

You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.

True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth, and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces. It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts." [5]

As long as you are black, and you're gonna be black till the day you die, no one's gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you'll make it. Just pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd prefer to be referred to by his name rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief."]

Everything we do, talí, we do with honor.

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

Staking is a terrible way to go. I'd much rather be decapitated. It still makes an awful mess but it's a lot more dignified than your limbs twittering all over the place. - Jo March

I'll do anything reasonable, but I won't be intimidated and I won't grovel.

I have to remember that giving honor reveals more about my character than the character of the other person.

Humility isn't a place of weakness but rather a position that will come with honor (Proverbs 18:12).

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Because God is with us in the human struggle, we are no longer destined to fruitlessly rearrange the circumstances of our lives. We no longer depend on another move, another relationship, or another weight-loss program to rescue us from nothingness, from that persistent ache in the pit of our souls. We can flourish because in Jesus Christ the Creator came to us and restored our dignity as God's children.

loyalty must be earned from a man whose dignity has not been assaulted.

Y lo peor es que hiciste que se disculpara. [...] La hiciste pedir perdón por su enfermedad. Por su valor. Hiciste que le diera vergüenza morirse.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.