Dignity Quotes
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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
Bill Clinton
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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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The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
William O. Douglas
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To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.
Etgar Keret
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You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.
Miuccia Prada
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All of us wish for a dignity that commands respect. But few have it.
R. Madhavan
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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Seneca the Younger
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
Raymond Chandler
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Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.
Tom G. Palmer
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He remembered suddenly, at this moment, as he looked at the squares of moonlight lying on the floor, the time when he had first realized that pain is a thing that we must face and come to terms with if life is to be lived with dignity an not merely muddled through like an evil dream... In some vague way he had understood that dark things are necessary; without them the silver moonlight would just stream away into nothingness, but with them it can be held and arranged into beautiful squares.
Elizabeth Goudge
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When in charge, take charge, but treat your subordinates with respect, dignity, and common courtesy.
Hal Moore
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No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
Sarah Addison Allen
