Dignity Quotes - Page 25

• The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Greatness, Stronger

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Glory is like a circle in the water

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Grace, Definitions, Pressure

  Quoted in New Yorker, 30 Nov. 1929 (profile by Dorothy Parker

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• Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

  Homer

  Men, Honor, Alive

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• Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Rome, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Keys, Important

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.69, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

  Orlando Bloom

  Drama, School, Years

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Brother, Integrity, Simple

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• The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

  Jerry Falwell

  Pregnancy, Offering, People

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• Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

  H. L. Mencken

  Father, Thanksgiving Day, Persons

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• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Heaven, Offence

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 36

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• It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

  Christopher Hampton

  Faces, Violence, Ethics

  Christopher Hampton (1976). “Treats: A Play”, Samuel French

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• There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

  George Washington

  Independent, Men, Giving

  George Washington (1795). “Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress,: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by His Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, Now President of the United States”, p.269

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Character, Men

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• ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Shrinks

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

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• Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Human Bondage, Policemen, Regard

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.356, Diversion Books

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• Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

  George Santayana

  Travel, Fixed, Interest

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• It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Average, Littles

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.389, e-artnow

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• When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.

  Claude A. Swanson

  Water, Levels, Rats

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• Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Firsts, Merit

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.113

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• Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Romola: Top Novelist Focus".

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• Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

  James Goldsmith

  Debt, Favors, Merit

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• We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism.

  Richard T. Ely

  Attitude, Class, Favors

  "Socialism: An Examination of Its Nature, Its Strength and Its Weakness, With Suggestions for Social Reform". Book by Richard T. Ely, 1894.

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