Quotes about Dignity

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

I said it was a brutal thing. No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent