Dignity Quotes

1666 Dignity quotes by 1060 unique authors

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never… — Helen Mirren
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. — Richard M. Nixon
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. — Richard M. Nixon
I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. — Frances O'Grady
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated… — Joyce Carol Oates
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and… — Barack Obama
I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They… — Barack Obama
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your… — Michelle Obama
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them.… — Michelle Obama
We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than… — Michelle Obama
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. — Yoko Ono
We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that. — Yoko Ono
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. — Thomas Paine
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There… — Leon Panetta
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner… — Pope John Paul II
I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to… — Rick Perry
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable… — Luigi Pirandello
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. — John Charles Polanyi
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. — Dan Quayle
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every… — John D. Rockefeller
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self,… — Mitt Romney
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human… — Mitt Romney
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. — Rita Rudner

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