Dignity Quotes

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.

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

I want to age with some dignity.

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.

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.

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.