Dignity Quotes - Page 7

• I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  Carl Paladino

  Jobs, New York, Responsibility

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• To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Crush, Animal, Feet

  "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

  Bono

  Equality, Rights, Talking

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• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  Imelda Marcos

  Life, Country, Rights

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Respect

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• The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Order, Law, Giving

  1972 'Apologia', in the Harvard Law Review, Jun.

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• Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

  John Brown

  Liars, Character, Honor

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

  George Meany

  Dignity Of Work, Justice, Goal

  Archie Robinson, George Meany (1981). “George Meany and his times: a biography”, Simon & Schuster

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• A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

  George Grenville

  Wise, Government, Political

  Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, George Grenville (1769). “The Speech of a Right Honourable Gentleman, on the Motion for Expelling Mr. Wilkes, Friday, February 3, 1769”, p.41

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• Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Politics, Presidency

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• Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

  Bill Hybels

  Discipline, Heaven, Doe

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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• No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Compromise, Should, Humans

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.115, Bantam

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• 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

  Heart, Inward, Silent

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.38

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• Self-respect is the root of discipline

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Self, Roots, Discipline

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• In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

  Margaret Fuller

  Hands, Order, Giving

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• I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

  Sonny Rollins

  Musician, Way, Facts

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• Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

  George Mason

  Men, Hands, Ideas

  "Extracts from the Virginia Charters" by George Mason, July 1773.

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Historical, Bears, Nineteenth Century

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

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• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Class, Needs

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

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• One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.

  William Carlos Williams

  Profound, Down And, Clarity

  1923 Spring and All, 'Spring and All'.

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• There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Taken, Sticks

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Drinking, Simple

  Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

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• What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

  Dominique de Menil

  Moving, Action, Should

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