Dignity Quotes And Sayings

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“When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight – but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert 

“If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar woman and single, far rather than queen and married.” 
– Elizabeth I Tudor, Collected Works

“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.”
– Emma Goldman 

“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.”
– Erma Bombeck 

“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.”
– Ernest Hemingway 

“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.”
– Frank Serpico 

“The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.”
– Frederica Montseny 

“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!”
– Gary Ryan Blair 

“Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.”
– George Santayana 

“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
– George Santayana 

“The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
– George Santayana 

“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.”
– George W. Bush 

“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.” 
– Greta Garbo, Garbo

“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
– Grover Cleveland 

“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
– H. L. Mencken 

“There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.”
– Harry Bridges 

“The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
– Helen Hayes 

“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
– Herbert Hoover 

“There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.”
– Herman Melville 

“They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”
– Herman Melville 

“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.”
– Hillary Clinton 

“Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.”
– Imelda Marcos 

“By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.”
– Immanuel Kant 

“The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.”
– J. William Fulbright 

“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” 
– James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” 
– Jane Austen

“I want to write a poem about “Truth,” “Honor,” “Dignity,” and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.” 
– Jarod Kintz, I Want

“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
– John D. Rockefeller 

“It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that’s what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn’t exist.” 
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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