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Quotes About Dignity

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
~ R. C. Sproul
If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.
~ Justina Chen
Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.
~ Sheila McKechnie
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
~ Bessie Head
I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.
~ Chief Joseph
I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.
~ Martin O'Malley
But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.
~ Tom Brokaw
If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.
~ Lady Gaga
We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.
~ Pope Francis
Everyone should feel comfortable they are going to remain in their homes until their dying days. We should never be uneasy or unsure of where our home is in the United States of America.
~ Tit Elingtin, Eminent Domain
Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
~ Nelson Mandela
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
~ Immanuel Kant
The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!
~ Robert Burns
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
~ Scott Hamilton
I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.
~ Burt Lancaster
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
~ Confucius
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
~ Irwin Edman
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan