Dignity Quotes
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
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More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
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Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
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If once a man has come to the idea of a service which is not purely moral, but is ...... In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.
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The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
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And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.
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The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
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I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be ugly and contemptuous in our behavior, which will turn people off, or else we can carry ourselves with dignity and pride.
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As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.
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I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.
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Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
