Quotes about Dignity

Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

One of the best springs of generous and worthy actions, is having generous and worthy thoughts of ourselves: whoever has a mean opinion of the dignity of his nature will act in no higher a rank than he has allotted himself in his own estimation.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them. A church can never be reduced to a place where goods and services are exchanged. It must never be a place where a person is labeled. It can never be a place where gossip is perpetuated. Before anything else, it is a place where a person is named and greeted, whether implicitly or explicitly, in Jesus's name. A place where dignity is conferred.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

Neither explaining suffering nor offering a program for the elimination of suffering, Lamentations keeps company with the extensive biblical witness that gives dignity to suffering by insisting that God enters our suffering and is companion to our suffering.

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.