Dignity Quotes
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"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas"
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."
Quote by -George W. Bush
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
Quote by -Erma Bombeck
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
Quote by -Bill Gates
You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Quote by -Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Quote by -Aristotle
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
“All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.”
Quote by -George Santayana
We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
Quote by -Mother Teresa
We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
Quote by -Mother Teresa
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
"Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
“Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Quote by -Sarah McLachlan
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken