Quotes about Dignity

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

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

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.

To give my freedom blindly to a being equal to or inferior to myself is to degrade myself and throw away my freedom. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. If

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

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

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.