Quotes About Dignity And Honor

#1. Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#2. The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

T.E. Lawrence

#3. The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

Ali Khamenei

#4. It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. 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

#6. You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.

Allan Lokos

#7. Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

David Graeber

#8. It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Craig Ferguson

#9. The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.

Angelina Grimke

#10. Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

Michael Josephson

#11. And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.

Pittacus Lore

#12. A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

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

Victor Hugo

#14. This used to be a day in honor of the dead of World War One, but the living couldn't keep their grubby hands off of it, wanted the glory of the dead for themselves. So typical, so typical. Any time anything of real dignity appears in this country, it's torn to shreds and thrown to the mob.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. To keep dignity, and give honor when it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace.

Orson Scott Card

#16. Good heavens, man, give them more than that! If you pay everyone what they deserve, would anyone ever escape a whipping? Treat them with honor and dignity.
The less they deserve, the more your generosity is worth. Lead them inside.

William Shakespeare

#17. What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

Howard Dean

#18. What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,
to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Jeremy Collier

#19. Our work - is to do the part assigned to us in order to inherit the glory and honor and dignity of which I speak.

Bruce R. McConkie

#20. We used to be Kings now we are beggars. We used to be leaders, now we are dogs We used to be fathers now we are sperm donors. Now we have nothing. No dignity, no honor and no self respect..

Jill Thrussell

#21. To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

George Washington

#23. he carried out these traits until the very end, even when he knew the war was unwinnable. And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor.

Pittacus Lore

#24. People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.

Cristina Henriquez

#25. Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

James Frey

#26. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.

Heather Stang

#27. I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Orson Scott Card

#28. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.

Roopleen

#29. He was a creature of the last turning of the centuries when sleep seemed to come more easily. Things were clear to him. He was loyal, a believer in dignity, honor, and effort.

Erik Larson

#30. Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Laura Schlessinger

#31. 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

#32. This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

#33. The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right. That was my mistake. Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity.

Brandon Sanderson

#34. Decency is when you put yourself before the needs of others, dignity lies in loyalty and humbleness; honor means honesty and openness, possess those and you will be most beautiful.

Bahman Solati

#35. Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

Alexandra Fuller

#36. I came to these lands because when a man threatens me and I look away, he has taken something important from me. If I fight and die, all he can take is my life. My courage, my dignity remain. Shall I do less for the nation I have made? Shall I allow them less honor than I claim for myself?

Conn Iggulden

#37. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.

Jennifer DeLucy

#38. A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Paul Ryan

#39. I didn't cry easily. It was a badge of honor, of toughness. I was a slip of a girl, a woman with little to offer and nothing to say, but I had my dignity, and tears were undignified.

Amy Harmon

#40. Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less.

Nouman Ali Khan

#41. Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

William Shakespeare

#42. A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus

Carlos Castaneda

#43. It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

George W. Bush

#44. Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve
a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Morgan Freeman