Quotes with dignity

Quotes 41 till 60 of 100.

  • Beverly Sills My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Booker T. Washington 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
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alcee Hastings Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ronald Knox Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
    Ronald Knox
    English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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  • Jimmy Carter Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak and human dignity must be enhanced.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • George Santayana Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • George Santayana Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Oscar Wilde Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Armstrong Williams Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Remember this, that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Mae West Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Richard Nixon Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bono 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.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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