Quotes about Dignity
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
- Marianne Williamson
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
- Zig Ziglar
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
- Zig Ziglar
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
- Pope John Paul II
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .
- Nelson Mandela
I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!
- Emily Bronte
Don't degrade yourself into an abject reptile — don't.
- Emily Bronte