Dignity Quotes
1666 quotes by 1060 authors
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Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning…
— Jack London
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God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.
— Blaise Pascal
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship,…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the…
— André Brink
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was…
— Aberjhani
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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
— Martha Gellhorn
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I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you…
— C.S. Lewis
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He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least.…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
— Leon Trotsky
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are.…
— Neil Gaiman
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
— Romain Gary
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Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
— Karl Rahner
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