Top 1200 Dignity And Strength Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.

Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Our family is a circle of strength and love...Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

We are a party that believes in dignity and respect for one another. We can't say that is what we want in the country if we don't behave like that ourselves.

Economic growth and 'future superpower' status is all very good but that doesn't guarantee dignity for every individual.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

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

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

Lack of dignity and equal opportunity at workplace for women in cinema is a truth that needs role reversal.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Maintaining dignity and staying calm in a show like 'Bigg Boss' is a very big task.

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

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

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Comedy is essentially about watching a bunch of people who you really love lose their dignity.

I've struggled to get respect and dignity for my profession, and I do it in the way I lead my life as a fighter and as a human being.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.