Dignity Quotes
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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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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Seneca the Younger
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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I dont know that the United States is Gods Country, but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.
Rich Mullins
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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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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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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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The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.
Edwin Osgood Grover
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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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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
George Stillman Hillard
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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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America is a nation of immigrants, and we should treat those who come to our country with dignity and respect.
Hillary Clinton
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
Carolyn Wells
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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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It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.
Eugene Jarecki
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I have a penchant, an appetite for writing lives, even unhappy ones, in the course of which the person holds on to a certain dignity up to the end, in spite of the disappointments, the things unfinished, the suffering…
Natalie Zemon Davis
