Top 100 Dignity In Quotes
#1. Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
Walter Savage Landor
#3. It's always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.
Mark Lawrence
#4. He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
Charlie Jane Anders
#5. Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Tom Cochrane
#6. Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.
Pope Francis
#7. There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.
Michael Scott
#8. I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
Frances O'Grady
#9. A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.
Kay Francis
#10. There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.
Vera Brittain
#11. We need fresh, new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs and restored dignity in the lives of our Utahns.
Scott Howell
#12. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
#13. On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he
speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts
of him.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#14. Today, poor people the world over are seeking opportunity and choice to have greater dignity in their lives - and they want to do it themselves, even if they need a little help. Today we have the tools and technologies to bring real opportunities to people all across the world.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#15. True men ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
Zhuangzi
#16. This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.
Anna Politkovskaya
#17. It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#18. There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.
Martin Esslin
#19. I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.
Thomas Kincade
#20. Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.
Morarji Desai
#21. When you've been tossed and driven like the mighty rushing wind; hold on to you sense of dignity, in the end you will be the one that comes out on the top.
Barbara Hart
#23. I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.
Lisa Scottoline
#24. Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
Jay Parini
#25. Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.
Julian Short
#26. Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher to identify his own virtues. He needs to live supported by his inherent virtues-and must continue to uphold them.
Narendra Modi
#27. I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.
Mike Krzyzewski
#28. To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
David Mamet
#29. We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
Yoko Ono
#30. Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.
Vaclav Havel
#31. I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he ... Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a sociological phenomenon, an image of the death of the Literate Reader.
Harold Bloom
#32. I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them.
Paul Strand
#33. I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. 72.
Maggie Nelson
#34. Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#35. Not a mindless relinquishing of physical dignity in exchange for favors or pleasure, but an intentional vulnerability far more dangerous and lasting.
Grace Burrowes
#37. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
John Selden
#38. Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?
Julie Walters
#39. Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
Dan Groat
#40. I believe there is a dignity in consequences, Captain. I think there's a kind of truth in them, and I try to cultivate a profound respect for truth.
James S.A. Corey
#41. It's all right! Simon said hoarsely. Hastily he cleared his throat and put his shoulders back, though it was hard to recover dignity in pajamas.
Susan Cooper
#42. Royal blue frock coat covered in gold braid and, even more ridiculously, a top hat. Howell had such an imposing presence that rather than losing dignity in this flunky's outfit he actually made it seem strangely distinguished. Howell
Kate Atkinson
#43. When people spot me, they are really warm. They acknowledge me with smiles and come up, even now, to tell me that I showed a lot of dignity in 'Big Brother.' Or they say, 'I voted for you to win!' which is really sweet.
Shilpa Shetty
#44. In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.
Khem Veasna
#45. In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
Matt De La Pena
#46. I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.
Martin O'Malley
#47. She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.
T.D. Whittle
#49. Why would I be angry? Because they believe a thing does not make it so. There is no dignity in anger. But I am also not a kicked dog.
William Kent Krueger
#50. People live quiet lives and that's okay. There's dignity in that, no matter what you may think.
Jeff Zentner
#51. Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin
#52. You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.
Mark Lawrence
#53. Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.
John Longenecker
#54. God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.
Billy Graham
#55. Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
John F. Kennedy
#56. We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.
Vicente Fox
#57. I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
Dan Gilroy
#58. There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!
Woody Allen
#59. When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.
Eckhart Tolle
#60. Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.
Carson McCullers
#61. Could there, I wanted to know, be any dignity in such a death? Can anything be salvaged of what once was, to bring a sense of himself to aman near his final hour, when he has been through so much?
Sherwin B. Nuland
#62. Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.
Judith Lewis Herman
#63. I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.
Toni Cade Bambara
#64. There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Herman Melville
#65. I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#66. A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
#67. Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
Horace Walpole
#68. There is a certain dignity in going through life without the promise of Heaven or the threat of Hell.
Daniel L. Everett
#69. It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
Kurt Cobain
#70. Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.
Mark Mathabane
#71. There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.
Obert Skye
#72. Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
Bruce Catton
#73. We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.
Carly Fiorina
#74. Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.
Charles Bracelen Flood
#75. Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.
Suzanne Johnson
#76. I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.
Marilynne Robinson
#77. There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.
Tariq Ramadan
#78. Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
Agnes Smedley
#79. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.
Alan Dean Foster
#80. Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason
#81. The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.
Cesar Chavez
#82. Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.
Whitney M. Young
#83. If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#84. To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
Bruno Dumont
#85. In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.
Carlos Salinas
#86. There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.
Jocelyn Murray
#87. She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.
Anonymous
#88. There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.
J. Nozipo Maraire
#89. The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen to be at my expense, I joined in and accepted my star with as much pleased dignity as I could muster.
Stephen Fry
#90. It is, in fact, a great mistake to think we must suppress observations of human differences if we are to do justice to human dignity. The dignity of the person is not touched by such observations, for the dignity of human beings as persons is not an object of observation but of recognition.
Robert Spaemann
#91. Where only angels tread, he would be a fool to rush in; though perhaps the wise may preserve their dignity if, aware of their presumption, they enter cautiously.
Wilfred Cantwell Smith
#92. Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
Chiang Kai-shek
#93. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.
Nicholas Sparks
#95. There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
Ronald Reagan
#96. Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.
Pope John Paul II
#97. Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!
Pope John Paul II
#98. The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
Thomas Carlyle
#99. Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
Robbie Robertson
#100. And children are still the way you were ... as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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