Dignity Quotes

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. — John Updike
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity… — Thorstein Veblen
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of… — Lech Walesa
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who… — Lech Walesa
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not… — Paul Wellstone
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore… — Mae West
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of… — Ellen G. White
All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to… — Ellen G. White
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. — Alfred North Whitehead
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. — Tennessee Williams
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its… — William Wordsworth
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual… — Minoru Yamasaki
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity… — Wendell Berry
People who donâ€™t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who donâ€™t know the… — Young-Ha Kim
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread… — Frantz Fanon
I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face… — Dorothy Day

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