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Quotes About Dignity

If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
both have equal worth, value, and dignity as bearers of God's image. Male and female are equally part of the creation that He called "man.
~ Mary A. Kassian
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
~ Mary Astell
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
~ Mary Astell
The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.
~ Unknown
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
~ Unknown
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
~ Helen Hayes
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
~ Unknown
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
~ Unknown
Id rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
~ Helen Hayes
A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor her like the valuable treasure she is. A REAL man will not attempt to rip her precious pearl from it's protective shell, or persuade her with charm to give away her treasure prematurely, but he will wait patiently until she willingly gives him the prize of her heart. A REAL man will cherish and care for that prize forever.
~ Leslie Ludy
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse
~ Benjamin Spock
We are to be agents of His great upside down Kindgom, where the outcasts are listened to, the broken are given dignity, and those suffering under the weight of sexual exploitation are rescued and healed.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
Yes, royals know how to do things beyond counting our twelve toes.
~ Mary E. Pearson
stopped him, pushing him to his feet again by the tip of my sword. "It shouldn't matter if I am a tavern maid or a princess. When I see you treating others with respect without regard to their station—or anatomy—then your apology will mean something." I
~ Mary E. Pearson
Taking a life, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Eu o interrompi, empurrando-o para que ficasse em pé de novo, com a ponta da minha espada. "Não deveria fazer diferença se eu sou uma criada de taverna ou uma princesa. Quando eu o vir tratando os outros com respeito, independentemente da posição que ocupam, ou da sua anatomia, então seu pedido de desculpas significará alguma coisa." Eu me virei para ir embora enquanto ele ainda falava, cansada porque essa era uma batalha que eu teria que lutar repetidas vezes.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Never read anything that you wouldn't want to read out loud - - to your mother.
~ Unknown
Tener derechos no quiere decir reclamarlos en forma vigorosa y a gritos en todos los casos. Lo que sí significa es que tienes una base de seguridad que te permite tomar buenas decisiones sobre cómo comportarte.
~ Unknown
You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
~ Mary J. Blige
told me, a lord, no less.
~ Mary Jo Putney
If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.
~ Mary Jo Putney
I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient's own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient's dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes.
~ Unknown