Top 1200 Dignity And Respect Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

You can disagree, but it`s a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.

The forgiving heart is capable of anything. I believe that deeply. And that's where in terms of becoming an empowered individual.... when you get to the point where you realize you can look at someone and say “I love myself enough - not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself - I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here. - With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world? - No! I mean yes - well, NO! - I think i should perhaps be alarmed that you have trouble answering the question.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Much of an editor's job is in fact pretty nanny-like in nature: in many ways, you're there to protect and defend, to reassure and clean up. What I ask from writers is respect. I want them to respect me enough to turn in a clean draft. I want that draft to be as good as they can make it. I want to feel the thought behind those words. And I want it to be turned in on time. It drives me wild when I get a story that's obviously slapped together, and the same can be said for a manuscript; you should respect your reader enough to give her something that reflects your best efforts.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

I learned dancing because I loved dancing. It took away the pain, it took away everything, I was happy when I was dancing. I got a lot of respect when I was dancing: people respected my art, they didn't only respect my body.

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

My family's big on discipline, respect, manners, make sure that we respect our elders. So that's kind of what the military is. You have to say, 'Yes sir,' 'No ma'am,' 'Yes ma'am.' All that stuff. That's kind of the mold my dad has for my brothers and I.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

My father always said, "You don't know who you are until you know where you came from." That's one thing I always remembered. The other thing that my family always taught me was respect and reputation. You always respect yourself.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

When you talk about a man like David Bowie, you have to go in there with dignity.

In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.

If you want to get power, listen carefully. Don't be impulsive. Don't arrogantly insert your opinion. Express gratitude. Cultivate a culture of respect. Show your respect for other people's efforts. Promote a culture of equality, too, where everybody's opinion matters. Tell stories.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

I relish any chance to punch A.J. Styles in the face, because he's a man I respect greatly. And I find that I want to punch people in the face that I respect greatly. I like to say it's an island thing, but it's not: it' just something that I like doing.

I have huge respect for women who go out of their homes and have the courage to make their own destiny. And let me tell you, Indian women are doing a great job. There are those who work because they have no option but to earn, and then there are those who do it because they have the right talent. I respect both.

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

I couldn't take that whole retail thing of being polite to people that are not being polite to you, and showing respect to people when they've got no respect for you. Retail in general is something I just can't do, unless it's my own shop.

In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.

Peace is handcrafted. It is made every day. Also friendship among people, mutual knowledge, esteem, is handcrafted. It's made every day. Respect the other, say that which one thinks, but with respect, but walk together.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority." "Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

I don't believe in rebound relationships and happy sex. Everything has to happen with dignity.

Money is a living entity, and it responds to energy exactly the same way you do. It is drawn to those who welcome it, those who respect it. Wouldn't you rather be with people who respect you and who don't want you to be something you're not? Your money feels the same way.

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

You've got to respect the game and you've got to respect what the people that have played have done for the game.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

If you are captain of a great team like Paris St-Germain there are lots of players like Zlatan, players who are known by everybody. So to be captain of that team gives you respect and, in football, respect is very important.