Dignity Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives – our lives – dignity.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer 

“Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.”
– Jose Bergamin 

“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”
– Jose Marti 

“To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.”
– Jose Marti 

“I think sometimes people project things on you, but I’m trying to handle everything that’s happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can’t necessarily win all the time.”
– Katie Couric 

“What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.”
– Kenny Dalglish 

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.” 
– Laura Hillenbrand

“Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.”
– Laura Schlessinger 

“The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred – this is the road we have chosen.”
– Lech Walesa 

“This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions – formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers’ rights and dignity.”
– Lech Walesa 

“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”
– Lech Walesa 

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.” 
– Luigi Pirandello

“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.
– Madeleine Albright 

“I’m single because I was born that way.” 
– Mae West

“Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they’re doing and saying in films right now just shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no dignity anymore and I think that’s very important.”
– Mae West 

“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.” 
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.”
– Marc Chagall 

“I didn’t appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It’s never good to add to anybody else’s suffering. It’s an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of – dealing with dignity.”
– Margaret Cho 

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. 

“Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.” 
– Mary Ann Shaffer

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft 

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” 
– Mary Wollstonecraft

“To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.”
– Mason Cooley 

“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.”
– Max de Pree 

“Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.”
– Max Frisch 

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” 
– Michael J. Fox

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
– Michael J. Fox 

“I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.”
– Michael Jackson 

“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.”
– Michelle Obama 

“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.”
– Michelle Obama 

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