Dignity Quotes

Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.

John G. Stackhouse Jr.

I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can’t fix your stuttering. I can’t wipe the razorblade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can’t give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding you like this, rubbing your nose in your weakness till what little dignity you got left is gone and you shrink up to nothing from humiliation, I can’t do anything about that, either.

Ken Kesey

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

Darnell Lamont Walker

The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of men. Their faces are covered with semen from dozens of masturbating men, their anuses are penetrated repeatedly by lines of partners, and they are raped. The women portrayed in the films exist to fulfill the desire of men in the most degrading and painful way possible. Nearly all porn dialogue includes lines from women such as I am a cunt, I am a bitch. I am a whore. I am a slut.

Chris Hedges

I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

Rachel Caine

Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn’t the system, but who was running it. Bad guys had gotten into places of high office. We needed good apples. I worked my butt off to get people to vote for good apples. We had elections. We installed the kind of apples everyone agreed would be the kind of apples we could be proud of. They said good things. A few real dirtbags like Carrie Johnstone lost their jobs.tAnd then, well, the good apples turned out to act pretty much exactly like the bad apples. Oh, they had reasons. There were emergencies. Circumstances. It was all really regrettable. tBut there were always emergencies, weren’t there?

Cory Doctorow

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Carolyn Wells

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

Dian Fossey

Frank, I ran into Gladys and Billy at the store yesterday. Do you know what he said to me?"The girls went very quiet. Frank didn't look up."Hello?" he asked, and kept rubbing Henry's knife.Dotty hit him with her rag. "He said that. And so did she. But the important part was when he said, 'Frank ever get that door open?' Do you know what I said? What I said was--Are you ready for this? I said, 'No,'""Ah" Frank said. He lifted Henry's knife up to his mouth and dabbed the blade with his tongue. "That's my honest wife. I appreciate you lookin' out for my dignity.

N.D. Wilson

Someone said: "“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are"or "tell me who is your friend and I'll tell you who you are" ...etc..My life experience oppose the above mentioned sayings.I would say, "Tell me how do you respond to gossip and I will tell you who you are" "Tell me how do you solve your problems and I'll tell you who you are

Mahsati Abdul

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

John Green

Class never runs scared.It is sure-footed and confident.It can handle anything that comes along.Class has a sense of humor.It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.Class never makes excuses.It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes.Class knows that good manners are nothing more than a series of small, inconsequential sacrifices.Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money.Some wealthy “blue bloods” have no class, while individuals who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it.Class is real.It can’t be faked.Class never tried to build itself by tearing others down.Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.Class can “walk with kings and keep it’s virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.” Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.If you have class, you’ve got it made.If you don’t have class, no matter what else you have, it doesn’t make any difference.

Ann Landers

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

Andrea Dworkin

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

Dante Alighieri

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

Immanuel Kant

There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer. The wisdom of her love for him, as love, sustained her dignity; she seemed to be wearing a crown. The compassion of his love for her, as she saw it, made her lift up her heart to him in devotion. He would sometimes catch her large, worshipful eyes, that had no bottom to them looking at him from their depths, as if she saw something immortal before her.

Thomas Hardy

I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the earth in the hope that humankind would forget both his writings and his name. I'd like to be able to make that demand; commemorative ceremonies are not only false but dangerous, as are all statues of famous men. Long live forgetfulness, I've always said—the only dignity I see is in oblivion.

Luis Buñuel

Dignity is a bridge.It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridgewithout ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.

Zapatistas

As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture of a politician's wife, shoulders held back, dignifIed yet modest.

Tania James

All lived lives of dignity and repression.

Mary Lou Foster Cooper

…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity.” - Dami K.

Ray Anyasi

You ask me to make a promise? I am in a cage. No promise I make is trustworthy because I would do anything to be rid of this cage. Promise me that you will not treat me like an animal or a spectacle, and I will see what I can do.

J.M. McDermott

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

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The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.

Sunday Adelaja

One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.

Sunday Adelaja

DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.

Sunday Adelaja

Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver

Emmanuel Olawale

I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.

Kelley Armstrong

All labor has dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There’s a dignity in consequences.

James S.A. Corey

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.

Sei Shōnagon

Don’t a man has serf esteem, it’s only woman who is sign of dignity, don’t man have their own?

Junaid Raza

On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed the son who had dignity to lose," (pp. 49).

Henri J.M. Nouwen

The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has failed, your schemes that have proved illusions. But like a man prepared, like a brave man, bid farewell to her, to Alexandria who is departing. Above all, do not delude yourself, do not say that it is a dream, that your ear was mistaken. Do not condescend to such empty hopes. Like a man for long prepared, like a brave man, like the man who was worthy of such a city, go to the window firmly, and listen with emotion but not with the prayers and complaints of the coward (Ah! supreme rapture!) listen to the notes, to the exquisite instruments of the mystic choir,and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria whom you are losing.

Constantinos P. Cavafis

Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.

Steve Maraboli

It’s a matter of dignity,” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.

Tom Perrotta

To assert dignity is to lose it.

Rex Stout

one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

we may have a better reflection of ourselves in the mirror depending on how thick the opaque substance behind it is; the lighter the substance, the poorer the image; the thicker the substance,the better the image.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but it is in any case pointless because the flies move much too fast. Consequencly, we stand still, as if on guard, and moreover almost exclusively in blazing sunshine, little breeze and fragrant flowers. Passersby can therefore easily get the impression that the fly hunter is a convalescent of some kind, momentarily lost in meditation. This is not wholly inaccurate.

Fredrik Sjöberg

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

Christopher Fowler

Shh,” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.

Lisa Mantchev

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

Antonia Fraser

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

Shannon L. Alder

How to hold the dignity; one should prevent, to be a toy in the hands of others. Consequently, one stands independently with its dignity; otherwise toy stays toy for another's purpose and pleasure, nothing else.

Ehsan Sehgal

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

Steven Erikson

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his own rear from the elements, he must not denude his opponents.

Wole Soyinka

When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they usually lack.

Chris Marlow

Familiarity increases carnality.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To respect my nature is to know my nature.

Petra Hermans

It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.

Lydia Davis

We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true ‘dignity’ is.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.

Frank Herbert

The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.

G.K. Chesterton

They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiration!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Life is harder than you thought, you must face the challenges that comes to your life and fight with Love and Dignity in-order to have a successful life.

Lenny Ramirez

She will at least be decently clothed as she waits. Tomorrow I shall find her a brush and powder and whatever else a woman of her dignity requires.” Fin rolled her eyes. “Is ‘dignity’ what you call it?” Jeannot offered her his hand. Fin took it and pulled herself up from the deck. She was barefoot and her pants and shirt were stained with everything from blood to oakum to lampblack. She stretched her shirt out between her hands and considered its mottle of stains. “I’m not dignified?” she asked. When Fin looked up, Jeannot had an eyebrow cocked high and one side of his mouth was curled in amusement. “Where you are concerned, much requires redefinition.

A.S. Peterson

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

Jonathan Glover

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