Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity!

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon...

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

Son, a real battlefield lacks dignity and honor. When lives are being spent—actual human lives—those high-minded concepts lose their meaning. All that matters is victory. If you have blades, you’ll use blades. If you have...

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not.” -Beatrix Whittaker

When respect becomes scarce the last resort is the respect of one’s self

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and...

I’d seriously contemplated a real collar – a sparkly green one – if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.

I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He...

As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. They are the natural dictates of conscience, and...

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principle of the second bag. Because the people never revolt just because they have to carry a heavy load, or because...

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in...

From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the slave states, went to church with their slaves, were baptized with them, and presumably expected...

To grow, be humble and ask questions most of the time. When you do so, a wise and smart person sees him/herself in you and treats you with dignity. On the other hand, if you...

My husband would do anything for me …’ It’s degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another.””It’s a very real power, Harriet.””Then … we won’t use it. If we disagree, we’ll fight...

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

The only duty you owe is to yourself and to your family.The duty you owe to yourself is to do the best you can, and the duty you owe to your family is to endeavor...

the quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

…a man’s value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity.” – Dami K.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

All roads out of hell lead home.

To save face, it’s better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from...

And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to show your belief in democracy, you also have to do so when you...

All labor has dignity.

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one’s dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one’s shame,...

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

At its core, this bill is about affording all Californians dignity and respect.

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living...

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The fastest way to die is to live a lie

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: ‘Schade, daß die Natur nur...

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

We want to treat them with great dignity and respect,

Dignity is the only one thing I have chosen over rules and benefits of slavery. I am not perfect because I chose to be myself; a human and this is the simplest form of dignity.

The moment you in a relationship, know that every action you take, carries your partner’s dignity along with yours.

Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.

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.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name...

Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it’s given away. It can always be beautified.

It’s easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it’s gone bad!

What do you think dignity’s all about?’The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. ‘It’s rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,’ I said. ‘But I...

I’m single because I was born that way.

Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God’s call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.