Quotes About Dignity

Authority is quite degrading

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

If you want to be proud of yourself, you have got to do things you can be proud of.

Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1–17.

Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.

All I'm asking forIs a little respect when I come home.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

The creature we call a GENTLEMAN lies deep in the hearts of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type.

Re: Committing attention] WHEN I SHOW YOU THAT YOU ARE WORTHY OF MY ATTENTION, I AM ACKNOWLEDGING AND HONORING YOUR WORTH (p.38).

I've got no tolerance for a man who hurts women. Every man on this planet owes his life to a woman. I hope they catch the bastard and hang him by his nuts.

His mother had drummed it into him and his brothers not to treat women like disposable goods. Hell, he had every bit as much sexual drive as the next man. He just had more self-control. Getting

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

This is what free people never understand. A slave isn't a person who's being treated as a thing. A slave is a thing, as much in her own estimation as in anybody else's.

nothing could easily erase the vision of Alice, crawling with lice, or Mama, eyes clenched shut under one more indignity, one more reminder of who we were, and what we had lost.

He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.

You are not a beggar at the table of life. You are the honored guest.

History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the history taught in the country set free from colonialism and its puppet rulers. Africa will write her own history and it will be a history of glory and dignity.

Neither cruelty, nor violence, nor torture will make me beg for mercy, because I prefer to die with my head raised high, with unshakeable faith... In my country's predestination rather than live in submission forsaking my sacred principles.

So what do we do next, Haunt Huntress?" "That's a pretty lame superhero name," I told him. "Scooby-Doo is already taken," he said with dignity. "Anything else sounds lame in comparison.