Quotes with dignity

Quotes 81 till 100 of 100.

  • Beji Caid Essebsi There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Helen Hayes There is only one terminal dignity - love.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Herman Melville They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bruno Dumont 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
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Philip Massinger True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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  • Harry S. Truman We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bayard Rustin When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Abbie Hoffman When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Edward Young Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
    Night Thoughts
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bunker Roy You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Denis Diderot Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Bob Beauprez My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Robert F. Kennedy We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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