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Dignity Quotes - Page 17

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Dignity, Baseness
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.210, GENERAL PRESS

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

Khem Veasna
Race, Names, Dignity

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

Kazuo Ishiguro
Mistake, Satisfaction, Dignity
Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.88, Faber & Faber

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Karl Kraus
Father, Dignity, Sin

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

John Ruskin
Expression, Dignity, Language

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

John Flavel
Children, Soul, Dignity
John Flavel (1698). “A treatise of the soul of man: wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened; its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved; the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in heaven and hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applied; divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined; the invaluable preciousness of human souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered; and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonably and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed”, p.35

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

Frederick Douglass
Patriotic, Fighting, Dignity

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Evelyn Waugh
Here I Am, Ruins, Dignity
Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

Evan Esar
Want, Littles, Dignity

Dignity is an anachronism.

Ellen Glasgow
Dignity, Anachronism
Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.8, Read Books Ltd

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Elizabeth Bowen
Embarrassment, Dies, Indignity
Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Dale Carnegie
Hurt, Men, Dignity
Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.

Carlos Salinas
Love, Pride, Dignity

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Honor, Dignity
Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

Ben Horowitz
Jobs, Dignity, Management

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

Anthony Douglas
Compassion, Dignity, Deserve

Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

Alexandra Fuller
Honor, Done, Dignity
Alexandra Fuller (2011). “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

Alain de Botton
People, Want, Dignity
Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

Aimee Mann
Way, Dignity, Problem
Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

Yoko Ono
Artist, People, Dignity

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Winston Churchill
Self Esteem, Men, Dignity
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

William Shakespeare
Uncles, Teaching, Dignity
William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Dignity, Great Ones

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Dignity, Fingers
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Dignity, Virtue
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.492

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