Top 1200 Human Dignity Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

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

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

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

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

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.

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

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

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

Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human rights. We've got countries on the Human Rights Council right now like Venezuela and Cuba.

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

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Dignity, respect, and citizenship for essential workers is personal for me and in the best interest of our country.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

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

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

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

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

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

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

If you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you have differences, you can find common ground on a way forward.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

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

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never sought their esteem or regard.

We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want to call it. We're all human beings, one way or another. All races have gone through times that are challenging; that's part of being a human.

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

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

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

We are committed to ensuring that immigration is not further criminalized and that all immigrants are treated with dignity and provided with a path to citizenship.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you’re going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)

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

Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

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

I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

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

The partisan warfare fueled by modern technology does not fairly reflect the grace and dignity of the American people.

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

I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.