Dignity Quotes
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
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Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
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What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades.
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The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.
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A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.
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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
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If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.
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A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
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We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
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We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
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Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.
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I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.
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Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
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I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
