Quotes with dignity

  • There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.
  • At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
  • The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
  • Remember this, that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
  • The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
  • So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
  • Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
  • There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
  • If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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  • Aristotle Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Dick Gregory Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Budd Schulberg Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Napoleon A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Victor Hugo A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Andrew Goodman A people must have dignity and identity.
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Baroness Orczy An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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  • Carol Bellamy And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • E. M. Forster At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Immanuel Kant By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Aristotle Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bill Hybels Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow For 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.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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