Dignity Quote by Theodore Roosevelt Download Open image “Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.” — Theodore Roosevelt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dignity Politeness Respect
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence. — African Spir Copy Share Image
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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