Quotes About Dignity

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

My father always used to say 'treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.'

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

The right to live is the most basic of human rights.

Relish challenges with determination, patience and courage and make your life worth living with honor and dignity.

If people treated you like an option, leave them like a choice.

When a man who treats his woman like a princess, it is proof that he has been raised by a queen.

Show respect to people who don't even deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.

In life, whether your rich or poor, you have one need not to be taken away. Your dignity and your reputation as human.