Dignity Quotes And Sayings

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“Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?”
– Sargent Shriver 

“An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.”
– Steve Martin 

“The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.”
– Steven Biko 

“I don’t want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.”
– Steven Patrick Morrissey 

“Peter Townshend shows us it’s all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock’n'roll.”
– Sting 

“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.”
– T. E. Lawrence 

“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”
– Tennessee Williams 

“When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!”
– Thabo Mbeki 

“Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.”
– Thorstein Veblen 

“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.”
– Tom Cochrane 

“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”
– Vartan Gregorian 

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.” 
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.” 
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.” 
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.”
– W. Somerset Maugham 

“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.”
– Washington Irving 

“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.”
– Wayne Dyer 

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind‘s dignity.”
– William Ellery Channing 

“Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.”
– William J. Clinton 

“If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.”
– William Shatner 

“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 

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