Dignifies Quotes

#1. There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.

Samuel Johnson

#2. True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#3. Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. Any work of art dignifies life.

James Ponsoldt

#5. There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

Nelson Mandela

#6. No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Virginia Woolf

#8. I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something
dignifies and improves a person.

George Saunders

#9. There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Samuel Johnson

#10. It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

William Shakespeare

#11. Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity.

Thomas Mann

#12. A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

#13. Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Thomas Mann

#14. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles

Audrey Hepburn

#15. He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.

Dr. Seuss

#16. I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.

Enya

#17. Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets ... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

Lulu

#18. Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.

David A.R. White

#19. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Xun Zi

#20. Never engage in a fight you're sure to lose. On the other hard, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it.

Stieg Larsson

#21. I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.

Megan McCafferty

#22. When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Gregory Orr

#23. When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

Matt Groening

#24. Don't come around and try come gas me up, I like running on E

Drake

#25. A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. Before you can brighten the corner where you are, you must first develop dislike for the initial dull corner you once endured. You can't change what you are comfortable with.

Israelmore Ayivor