Dignity Quotes - Page 18

Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.

Death strips all men of dignity.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.

Dignity and love do not blend.

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you’re going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.