Dignity Quotes - Page 3

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.