Dignity Quotes

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

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.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.