Dignity Quotes
1666 quotes by 1060 authors
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Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no…
— Harper Lee
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[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose…
— Karl Marx
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious…
— Martin O'Malley
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I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's…
— Martin O'Malley
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The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda…
— Reza Aslan
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I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
— Trent Reznor
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Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make…
— Giovanna Cau
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
— Michael J. Fox
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
— Robert Frost
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common…
— J. William Fulbright
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
— Judy Garland
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
— Charles de Gaulle
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
— J. Paul Getty
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When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human…
— Emma Goldman
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