Quotes about Dignity
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Character is how you treat people when they can do nothing for you.
- Nelson Mandela
Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1—17.
- Oswald Chambers
Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.
- Oswald Chambers
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
- Genesis 9:23
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
- Genesis 34:31
And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
- Deuteronomy 21:14
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- Deuteronomy 24:14
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
- Deuteronomy 25:3
and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
- 2 Samuel 6:22
The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
- Esther 6:3
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
- Job 19:5