Dignity Quotes

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The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible.… — Billy Mills
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts… — Parley P. Pratt
Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without — Subcomandante Marcos
When itâ€™s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility for a greater… — Alek Wek
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small,… — Aung San Suu Kyi
The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back. — Beth Moore
I mean, itâ€™s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and… — Noam Chomsky
Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them. — John de Ruiter
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men… — Ashley Judd
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. — Angela Merkel
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.â€ — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way… — Yvon Chouinard
Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to… — Pope Francis
This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to… — Bo Lozoff
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. — Albert Einstein
Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect… — Pope Benedict XVI
There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I donâ€™t think we can separate art from overall human dignity… — Adrienne Rich
We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. — Dominique de Menil
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job. — Howard Fast

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