Dignity Quotes - Page 27

• The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

  Clay Aiken

  Self Esteem, Teenager, Who I Am

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• What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Responsibility, Hands, Dignity And Strength

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• Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

  Ayn Rand

  Doctors, Titles, Bears

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.263, Penguin

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• Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Real, Self

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Way, Steps, Interest

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• Diplomacy: lying in state.

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Lying, States

  Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1906). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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• One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mistake, Men

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• A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Men, Great Power

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• [He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.

  Daniel Topolski

  War, Athlete, Fighting

  Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson (2013). “True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny”, p.32, Random House

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• It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

  Kurt Cobain

  People, Labels, Firsts

  "Sounds" Magazine, October 1990.

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• Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jealous, Support, Grace

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.230, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Able, Rich, Poor

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• Who has not hoped
  To outrage an enemy's dignity?
  Who has not been swept
  By the wish to hurt?
  And who has not thought that the impersonal world
  Deserves no better than to be destroyed
  By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?

  Jacob Bronowski

  Hurt, Enemy, Wish

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• Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Men, Guilt

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing

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• It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  World, Impossible To Forget, My Family

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Succeed, Bears, Century

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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• Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.

  Mohammed Dib

  Men, Looks, Slavery

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• The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Art, Church, Littles

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce. Here the enemy meets democracy's strongest element-the ability to realize and satisfy the needs of its people without taking from them their freedom and dignity as human beings.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Military, People, Enemy

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• Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Communism

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• There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

  Woody Allen

  Wise, Pain, Suffering

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• Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Honesty, Integrity, Real

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• It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Running, Science, Acceptance

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.478, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.

  Anne Murray

  Friendship, Soul, My Soul

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