Dignity Quotes - page 2

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest. (Paulo Coelho)
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. View quote
Tennessee Williams
If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity? View quote
André Malraux
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. View quote
Madeleine Albright
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. View quote
Ben Jonson
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. View quote
Mae West
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. View quote
George Washington
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. (Beverly Sills)
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. View quote
George Santayana
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. View quote
Benjamin Spock
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier. View quote
Lin Yutang
The dignity of history. View quote
Henry Fielding
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity. View quote
Bill Gates
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. View quote
Arthur Ashe
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. (Angela Merkel)
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity. View quote
Anton Chekhov
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.... View quote
Joe Biden
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny. View quote
Ronald Knox