Dignity Quote by George Stillman Hillard Download Open image “Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.” — George Stillman Hillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dignity Misfortunes Redeeming Respect
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“But dignity is also corroded by poverty no matter how poetically we invest the humble with simple graces and charm. No worker can maintain… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure… — Tom Cochrane Copy Share Image
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may… — Anders Chydenius Copy Share Image
“The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the… — Edgar Pangborn Copy Share Image
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share
Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share
One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
