DIGNITY QUOTES III

quotations about dignity

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

LAURA HILLENBRAND

Unbroken


He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.

CHINESE PROVERB


There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


No sir, letting something live without its dignity ain't doing it a favor. You kill an animal outright, and maybe it's wrong, but at least it leaves this world the same as it came into it. You change a wild animal ... make it live to suit us instead of itself, and unless you can make a real compelling argument for its complete domestication, then what you've done is way worse than wrong.

JAKE MOSHER

The Last Buffalo Hunter


Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

RICK BRAGG

All Over But the Shoutin'


It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

BLAISE PASCAL

Pensées


Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

DAVE EGGERS

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius


Human dignity is like other values identifiable by its bearer (the human being), and like other dignities of concrete types (senatorial dignity, priestly dignity, maternal dignity) determined or specified in the ideal realm by the kind of its bearers.

METTE LEBECH

On the Problem of Human Dignity


Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

LUIGI PIRANDELLO

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays


Remember this, -- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations


The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.

CLARENCE THOMAS

Obergefell v. Hodges, June 26, 2015


Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

JOSEPH BARTLETT

Aphorisms on Men


True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

lines left upon a seat in a Yew Tree