Dignity Quotes · Page 26

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

— Ed Murray

“Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.”

— Shannon L. Alder

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

— Steve Martin

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work…

— Albert Camus

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

— George Eliot

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

— James Frey

I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two…

— Jason Jones

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement…

— Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should…

— Maria Montessori

Every person on this earth - regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socio-economic status - deserves equal human rights,…

— Melissa Barrera

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother…

— Desmond Tutu

I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit…

— Ed Rendell

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever…

— Shirin Ebadi

We will maintain the city as a slaughter-free place to promote the dignity of animal coexistence. If Seoul slaughter activity occurs again,…

— Park Won-soon

In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had…

— Merold Westphal

The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…

— William J. Brennan

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just…

— Antonio Banderas

A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000…

— Malcolm Forbes

The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is…

— John Angell James

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that…

— Daisaku Ikeda

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

— Olof Palme

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one…

— Primo Levi

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.”

— Susan C. Young

“I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

Maturity is not when we speak big things. It is when we start understanding small 0nes.:)

— Megz

Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.

— Madison Cawthorn

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

— Janet Collins

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

— Anonymous

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

— David Mamet

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

— Dian Fossey

C’mon, Tally. Don’t you want your clothes, your keys? Oh wait, how about some dignity? (Kyrian)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

— Matt Chandler

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity!”

— Rossana Condoleo