Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Sarah Addison Allen

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

William Cowper

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

William Hazlitt

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

William Davis

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Yann Martel

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

I may not have dignity in your eyes, but at least I have my integrity.

Jose Saramago

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

Kathy Reichs

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Ollanta Humala

You could question his macroeconomics, but Velasco gave dignity to the people who lived in the countryside.

Cyril Connolly

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him

James Clavell

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

Ellen Glasgow

Dignity is an anachronism.

Rowan Williams

These people are not being left to be victims. They are being helped, trained and given back their dignity and freedom,

I want the whole world to watch it. I thought it taught so many things about dignity and respect.

Jim Taylor

They worked for 12 years to earn trust in this community, and it was compromised by a scam. These people lost their dignity and their pride, and they've worked hard for two years to get it back.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

R. C. Sproul

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

Publilius Syrus

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Dennis Hastert

soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.

Pope Francis

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

Marcus Aurelius

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

John Charles Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Kenneth Burke

Dignity belongs to the conquered....

Lord Chesterfield

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

And, ... he grew with dignity and with grace.

The mayor is very strong on the fact that you handle the remains with dignity and respect, especially considering the celebration of life that we have in New Orleans.

It's about the individual. It's about the one. And I don't want people to lose track of that. We handle every person as the individual and with the dignity they deserve.

And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

The ribbon symbolizes that we want dignity and justice for the immigrant community.

Carl Mydans

You really see dignity within people who are living through the most horrific of times.

Ricky Gervais

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