Dignity Quotes

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

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.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.