Dignity Quotes
1666 quotes by 1060 authors
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes…
— Barack Obama
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I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white…
— Justin Long
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There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to…
— John Oliver
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Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of…
— William J. Clinton
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Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
— Ricardo Montalban
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You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.
— Bill McDermott
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When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
— Zig Ziglar
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity
— William Shakespeare
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Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
— Eric Hoffer
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The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities…
— Milton Friedman
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A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Enthusiasm is natural; it is…
— Gordon Parks
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In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
— Tania Bruguera
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Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
— Carl Paladino
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The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not…
— Fisher Ames
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We must walk in solidarity with those who are living with HIV/AIDS and with those at risk. As witnesses of Christ, we are called to…
— Theodore Edgar McCarrick
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