Dignified Quotes

130 quotes by 117 authors

When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you… — Laozi
You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking… — Pope Francis
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty… — M.F.K. Fisher
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently… — H. L. Mencken
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of… — Seneca the Younger
It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave. — Trudi Canavan
Dignified, like a guest. — Laozi
A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself. — Poul Hartling
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest,… — Bruce R. McConkie
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far)… — Max More
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in… — James Bovard
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name — Ernest Dimnet
Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from… — Jack Kevorkian
The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through… — Leila Janah
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but… — Frederick Douglass
What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to… — Jody Williams
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books — Julian Clary

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