Dignity Quotes
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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Blaise Pascal -
Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.
Whitney M. Young
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox -
Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified.
Hamilton Morris -
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
Immanuel Kant -
Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like.
Hillary Clinton -
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt -
True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.
William Wordsworth
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All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.
Anthony Douglas Williams -
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.
Richard John Neuhaus -
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
Hillary Clinton -
You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.
Bill McDermott -
It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.
George Steinbrenner -
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
Raymond Chandler
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Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.
Eliza Lynn Linton -
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt -
Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.
Caster Semenya -
There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.
Arrigo Sacchi -
It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.
George Clooney -
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Greg Lake
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Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without
Subcomandante Marcos -
Inner freedom demands the с of any imposition that injures our dignity.
Fausto Cercignani -
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.
Cass McCombs -
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.
Edmund Yates