Dignity Quotes - Page 11

• It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Presidential, Tides

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.100, Humanix Books

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

  Francis Bacon

  Character, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.462

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• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Grace, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

  Orestes Brownson

  Men, World, Want

  Orestes Augustus Brownson (1965). “Brownson's Quarterly Review”

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• Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Pride, Men, Defeat

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• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Journey, Men

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.135

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• Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

  Alexander Pope

  Envy, Shade, Merit

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, Essentials, Working It

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 24, 2014.

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• We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Race, Unions, Fellowship

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• So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

  St. Jerome

  Angel, Race, Heaven

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• A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

  Lucius Accius

  Men

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• It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

  Seneca the Younger

  Easier, Grows

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• Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

  James Russell Lowell

  Humility, Grace, Humbleness

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Flower, Envy

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• The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

  Plutarch

  Mind, Add, Generous

  Plutarch (1803). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.121

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• High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Bible, Eight, White

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 33), 1895.

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• As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Errors, Meanness

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.192

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• Religion gives a dignity to distress.

  James Hervey

  Giving, Religion, Distress

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.33

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• Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Redeeming, Misfortunes

  George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223

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• Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Disadvantages, Ridicule

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

  Publilius Syrus

  Position

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• Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

  Juan Somavia

  Respect, People, Decent Work

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• We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

  Lech Walesa

  Respect, Future, Mean

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