Quotes about Dignity

Cissy Gay is dying,' she said, 'and it's a shame and disgrace that she is dying in a Christian community with no one to do anything for her. Whatever she's been or done, she's a human being.

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. when you stay on the high road.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.

Our future depends upon our appreciation of the reality of the inner life, of the splendor of thought, of the dignity of wonder and reverence. This is the most important thought: God has a stake in the life of man, of every man. But this idea cannot be imposed from without; it must be discovered by every man; it cannot be preached, it must be experienced.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth