Dignity Quote by Arthur Ashe

“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way,…

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve…

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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

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I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command…

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

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If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air…

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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without…

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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries…

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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

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I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with…

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

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I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to…

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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve…

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I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's…

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The dignity of man is in free choice.

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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't…

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It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he…

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

G. Stanley Hall