Quotes about Dignity

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn't think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn't think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.

I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. And many have died. Many. Many. Thou canst not think how many. But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.

The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.

A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.

Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

If you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you have differences, you can find common ground on a way forward.