Dignity Quotes - page 5

You will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining. (George Washington)
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time. View quote
Katie Couric
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him. View quote
Cyril Connolly
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity. View quote
Ricky Gervais
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. View quote
John Polanyi
You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. View quote
Hannah More
Style...is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. (Imelda Marcos)
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis. View quote
Aga Khan IV
I give dignity second place to expedience. View quote
Jack Vance
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion. View quote
Chuck Jones
All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here. View quote
George Galloway
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. View quote
George Orwell
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths:. View quote
Will Durant
High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood. (Arthur Penrhyn Stanley)
In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post. View quote
Sadao Araki
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady. View quote
Jane Austen
nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence. View quote
Edward Everett