Dignity Quotes - Page 22

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

It doesn't matter if you're delivering pizza or the president of a company, you still deserve to be treated well, and with dignity. Not everybody feels that way, unfortunately, and I experienced that first hand.

Above all, we value the dignity of every human life, protect the rights of every person, and share the hope of every soul to live in freedom. That is who we are. Those are the priceless ties that bind us together as nations, as allies, and as a civilization.

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

You can disagree, but it`s a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.