Dignity Quotes
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Tags: Deserving, Possessing ✍ Author: Maya AngelouI would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Tags: Carry, Her ✍ Author: Maria CallasWherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Tags: Freedom, Personal ✍ Author: Karel CapekDignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Tags: Questions, Sometimes ✍ Author: Charles DickensThat's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Tags: Book, Hope ✍ Author: Helen GarnerHumor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Tags: Him, Humor ✍ Author: Romain GaryThose who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Tags: Office, Show ✍ Author: Baltasar GracianThe only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Tags: Genuine, Others ✍ Author: Dag HammarskjoldA creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Tags: Master, Worse ✍ Author: Victor HugoOfficial dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Tags: Country, Office ✍ Author: Aldous HuxleyI have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
Tags: Cause, Name ✍ Author: A. J. JacobsMaking a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Tags: Difficult, Making ✍ Author: Greg LakeAny man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Tags: Lose, Rob ✍ Author: Nelson MandelaScrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Tags: Floors, Presidency ✍ Author: Richard M. NixonWell, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
Tags: Europe, Hand ✍ Author: Gwyneth PaltrowPerhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Tags: Himself, True ✍ Author: George SantayanaThe degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Tags: End, Reality ✍ Author: George SantayanaNo race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Tags: Race, Writing ✍ Author: Booker T. WashingtonVisit partners pages
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tags: Life, Question ✍ Author: Tennessee WilliamsHuman dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Tags: Human, Poor ✍ Author: Kjell Magne BondevikFor the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.
Tags: Policy, Won ✍ Author: Bernhard von BulowThere's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Tags: Broadway, Match ✍ Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Tags: Mediocrity, Preserve ✍ Author: Charles G. DawesI still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.
Tags: Bravery, Hit ✍ Author: Karen DuffyThe more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
Tags: Avoid, Learn ✍ Author: Dian FosseyDignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Tags: Family, Honor ✍ Author: Vartan GregorianI left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.
Tags: Left, Silent ✍ Author: George GrossmithHe worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.
Tags: Clothed, Worked ✍ Author: Don KingOnly man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
Tags: Funny, Therefore ✍ Author: Ronald KnoxWatching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
Tags: Lose, Used ✍ Author: Lisa KudrowFrankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.
Tags: Politics, Thinking ✍ Author: Thomas KydThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Tags: Talk, Work ✍ Author: Herman MelvilleWhen it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
Tags: Cannot, Human ✍ Author: Angela MerkelBecause we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
Tags: Respect, Tried ✍ Author: Ricardo MontalbanI don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
Tags: Lack, Longer ✍ Author: Steven Patrick MorrisseyHuman dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
Tags: Human, Knowledge ✍ Author: John Charles PolanyiToo many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.
Tags: Security, Treated ✍ Author: John Wilson