Dignities Quotes

#1. by indignities men come to dignities

Francis Bacon

#2. Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.

George Santayana

#4. For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Francis Bacon

#6. Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Victor Hugo

#9. All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.

Olympe De Gouges

#10. I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

#11. One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Fred Rogers

#12. The ministries of the Church are regarded by the masses merely as dignities, her offices as posts of emolument - in short, popular religion may be summed up as respect for ecclesiastics.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

Dalai Lama

#14. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

Francis Bacon

#15. Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

Rex Stout

#16. There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

Quico Canseco

#17. Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities - as a reflection of God's own heart.

John Eldredge

#18. It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Mick Jagger

#19. What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Martin Luther

#20. It is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree.

Kahlil Gibran

#21. I mean, jeez, look at this! It's still there after a whole week.
I'm scarred for life by a valentine hurled at my head.

Aya Nakahara

#22. It is not merely our adversaries we must investigate ... We must always work to know ourselves better, too.

Kate Milford

#23. Walter looked like he could chew nails and still come back for a helping of chain link fence. "Why can't Romeo and Juliet meet in a garden like in Downton Abbey?" Romeo asked. "I mean who meets on a balcony? How real is that?

Suzanne M. Trauth

#24. Don't put too much trust on your education level, girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband, bank account, because they will fail you. Only put your 100% trust on God, you will succeed !

Werley Nortreus

#25. Of the many things Lucy was noticing today, not the least remarkable was this: this ghoulish fashion in which respectable people will nibble after blood.

E. M. Forster

#26. If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Calvin Coolidge

#27. You goin' down on me rocks my world but when you're smashed, you ratchet that shit up so it's so fuckin' good, I don't know whether to come in your mouth or fuck you then hold you until you pass out, before I slip out while you're asleep and buy you a trophy.

Kristen Ashley

#28. I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Anita Brookner

#29. The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

Pierre Cardin

#30. If you are born weak, it's not your mistake. If you die weak, it's your mistake.

Saurabh Dudeja

#31. So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

Heidi Klum

#32. If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

Agnes Repplier