Dignity Quotes

1666 Dignity quotes by 1060 unique authors

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any… — Samuel Johnson
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified. — Pope John XXIII
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth… — Michael Josephson
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. — Blaise Pascal
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. — Ernest Hemingway
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. — Bruce Catton
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect. — Primo Levi
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. — Karel Capek
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity. — Immanuel Kant
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the… — Luigi Pirandello
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man. — Lucius Accius
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them. — Mohammed Dib
The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art… — Barbara Tuchman
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and… — Pranab Mukherjee
Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece… — Keith O'Brien
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt… — Mahatma Gandhi
It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact… — Maurice Saatchi
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. — Rebecca Solnit
Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the… — Ted Strickland
Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least… — Julie Walters
How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I… — Nate Mendel
Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce.… — Ramon Magsaysay

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