Dignity Quotes - Page 8

• Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Real, Veils, Real Truth

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.74

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• I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

  Maria Callas

  Demand, Callas

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• I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

  Michael Jackson

  Pride, Race, Who I Am

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• There is no dignity in television.

  Adam Savage

  Television, Fierce

  "MythBusters/ Vodka Myths". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2005.

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• I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

  John Shelby Spong

  God, Thinking, People

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• Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

  Sting

  Growing Up, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Way, Stills

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• Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Retirement, America, Foundation

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• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Thinking, Treated

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• A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

  Henry Mayhew

  Order, Mind, Facts

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.157

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• Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Adversity, Self, Challenges

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• A people must have dignity and identity.

  Andrew Goodman

  People, Identity

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• A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Inspirational Life, Lying, Patriotic

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Coats, Holiness

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141

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• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Night, Fire

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• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mean, Idaho, Problem

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Textbook by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Article 329, 1801.

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• Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Office, Political, Shows

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Independent, Dignity Of Work, Wealth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Goes On

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  Bayard Rustin

  Acknowledge You, Society, Human Rights

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

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• If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

  James A. Michener

  Self Esteem, Men, Discovery

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• They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Success, Work

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• The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all. We have to proclaim that every human being is equal, in dignity, in freedom -and, as the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, we have to live in a spirit of brotherhood.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Rights, Brotherhood, Suffering

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• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Men, Speaks Out, Decorum

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• Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

  Sargent Shriver

  Believe, Sacrifice, Dignity Of Work

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