Quotes About Dignity

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

Pero algo muy noble en la defensa del mundo indígena y de los secretos del territorio fue sacrificado allí, una deuda de respeto y de dignidad con los pueblos nativos quedó pendiente mucho tiempo en Colombia, y sigue siendo uno de los desafíos de nuestra incorporación en la modernidad.

Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.

The demon's target is not the possessed; it is us the observers..everyone in this house. I think the point is to make us despair..to reject our humanity: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial, vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.

And I think—I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial, vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy. And there lies the heart of it, perhaps: in unworthiness. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Perseverance, dear my lord,Keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hangQuite out of fashion, like a rusty mailIn monumental mockery.

In thy face I seeThe map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

Let none presumeTo wear an undeserved dignity.O! that estates, degrees, and officesWere not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honorWere purchas'd by the merit of the wearer.

For new-made honor doth forget men's names.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

Ay, every inch a king.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

He was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit.

Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honor's at the stake.

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

A peace above all earthly dignities,A still and quiet conscience.