Dignity Quotes

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants, and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this...

~ William Wordsworth

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

~ Rachel Caine

Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

~ Andrea Dworkin

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.

~ Luigi Pirandello

Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

~ Colin S. Smith

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'.

~ Kathleen Norris

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

What do you think dignity's all about?'The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

~ Dashanne Stokes

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

~ Cass R. Sunstein

If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

~ Cass R. Sunstein

If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.

~ Christina Engela

The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not. -Beatrix Whittaker

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity.

~ Anum Sattar

To grow, be humble and ask questions most of the time. When you do so, a wise and smart person sees him/herself in you and treats you with dignity. On the other hand, if you ask questions and try to learn from a shallow and fool person, s/he treats you with contempt and disrespect. Now, you know who is who...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

~ Richard John Neuhaus

On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

~ Shelby Foote

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

~ Robert Penn Warren

I understand,” she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: “The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain.” Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. “We are the mountains and rivers,” he says, impressed. “No matter what the country is called.

~ Shawna Yang Ryan

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

~ Sameh Elsayed

Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites.You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride.

~ Luigina Sgarro

So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it....it cost her tears to think that her situation might actually be that desolate, so she prayed again for patience, for tact, for understanding--for every virtue that might keep her safe from conflicts that would be sure to leave her wounded, every virtue that might at least help her to preserve an appearance of dignity, for heaven's sake.

~ Marilynne Robinson

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

~ Flannery O'connor

When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.

~ Rscruz

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

~ Robin Hobb

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

~ John Steinbeck

I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he is, you love him insulting you. If he reformed, you would drop him at once and stop loving him altogether. But you need him in order to continually contemplate your high deed of faithfulness, and to reproach him for his unfaithfulness. And it all comes from your pride. Oh, there is much humility and humiliation in it, but all of it comes from pride.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had adifferent word for burger flipping, they called it opportunity.

~ Charles J. Sykes

Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.

~ Benjamin Silliman

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent.

~ Wole Soyinka

I do not love. Love is only for women who are complete. I cannot love while my heart lacks safety and in my wallet there is enough money to pay for a loaf of bread. I cannot kiss you while I am thinking of the house rent and the electricity bills. I cannot behave as a mature woman who can exchange with you phrases of love while my childhood is not yet complete. This is an unfair compromise for safety and for existence.  We only call it love to preserve our dignity.

~ Jihad Eltabey

Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s essential na

~ Thomas I. Emerson

All people want to live dignified live, dignity just means something different to different people.

~ Fredrik Backman