Quotes About Dignity

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

I don't want the attention. I want the respect.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

The icy precepts of respect.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

I have tremendous respect for women.

True compassion is about not bruising the other person's self-respect.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers

I love it when people have pleasure working and when there is respect. That's what I love.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.