Dignity Quotes
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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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Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.
Norval Morrisseau
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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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The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.
Edwin Osgood Grover
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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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I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.
Norbert Elias
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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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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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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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When in charge, take charge, but treat your subordinates with respect, dignity, and common courtesy.
Hal Moore
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Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.
Josh Hawley
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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
George Washington
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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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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
