Dignity Quotes

1666 Dignity quotes by 1060 unique authors

He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the… — Jim Butcher
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth,… — Ravi Zacharias
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis… — Tim O'Brien
Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity. — Naomi Klein
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? — Madeleine L'Engle
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it… — Djuna Barnes
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. — George Orwell
Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly… — Richard Rohr
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves… — Wendell Berry
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
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
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. — Blaise Pascal
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
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
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
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
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
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… — AndrÃ© Brink
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
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
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
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
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
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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