Quotes about Dignity
Treat people with dignity and respect.
- Michelle Obama
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
- Bill Hybels
Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
- Will Smith
We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
- Matt Chandler
The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.
- Beth Moore
Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.
- Charles Swindoll
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
- Paulo Coelho
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
- Ernest Hemingway
Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".
- John Wooden
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.
- Samuel Johnson
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
- Jacqueline Novogratz