Dignity Quotes - Page 20

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

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.

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

I thought there was something in Ted Cruz`s dignity that prevented him by endorsing a candidate like that, because that was the best explanation of what he did.

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

I always made sure that I kept the dignity, or tried to keep the dignity that they showed, by standing there and singing and not doing too much else, because I didn't know what else to do. But you know, sometimes you can get carried away and I don't know, lose your composure or something.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can’t hurt you anymore when you’ve been completely dismantled.