Quotes About Dignity

Because our majority culture has tended to think of African Americans as inferior, the words we've used to describe them, no matter how dignified they seem when first employed, eventually sound like terms of contempt. African Americans react and insist on new terminology, which we eventually accept, until it too seems to connote inferiority.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

By behaving honorably, even to people who may not deserve it, he believes you can influence them to behave more honorably than they otherwise would. This

WISDOM ISN'T ABOUT NOT MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING TO ESCAPE AFTERWARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTACT.

Wisdom isn't about not making mistakes, but about learning to escape afterwards with our dignity and sanity intact.

No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting.

Hey show some respect. They're real people with names. Carla and Krissy" He frowned. "Or was it Missy?

Dad, I've always made it a rule in my life not to pick fights with children, cute animals or ignorant old men. I will, however, make an exception for you if you ever touch or insult my wife again.

Papá- dije en voz baja-, siempre he hecho que sea una regla en mi vida no buscar peleas con niños, animales tiernos o ancianos ignorantes. Sin embargo, haré una excepción por ti si alguna vez tocas o insultas a mi esposa otra vez.

And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.

Showler here, Mr. President

People wrote these stories down because they found in them something that helped restore their dignity; the stories gave them a sense of identity; they helped give voice to their pain.

Edwards knew that the constant spending and deliberate time-wasting was taking a toll. 'I know that if I get to the end of this year I'll have no dignity left at all,' he said. 'It's all gone. I live in a big fantasy world... It's sad.' He'd often end the day drinking even more to block out the world and allow him to get to sleep.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford.

It was as a result of his courage that two white men were on trial for killing a Negro, a trial in which, whatever the result, "there is a kind of majesty. And we owe that sight to Mose Wright, who was condemned to bow all his life, and had enough left to raise his head and look the enemy in those terrible eyes when he was sixty-four.

MR. CALHOUN.   Never, never. MR. WEBSTER.   What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN.   Always, always. MR. WEBSTER.   And I honor him for it.

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.

A public employee, having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.

Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.

People treat me nice, I treat them nice. If they don't, I walk away. I don't worry much.

She rearranged her legs again. If she kept doing that, it was possible that I might begin to bugle like a stallion. Which would not be dignified.

Robert B. Parker