Dignity Quotes
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There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
George Washington
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To describe love – making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers – on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand – squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth – does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people – they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
George Stillman Hillard
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I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.
Elias Chacour
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
George Grenville
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We rise in glory, as we sink in pride: Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Edward Joseph Young
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All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.
Hillary Clinton
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?
Zhuge Liang
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One should continue of course with dignity to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead -obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.
Hillary Clinton
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A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
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Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.
George Will
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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Death deserves dignity.
Saul Bellow
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Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.
Thomas Kinkade
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Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
Humphry Davy
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Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.
Wole Soyinka
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There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Sean O'Casey
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Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.
Chip Espinoza
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If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
Sean O'Casey