Quotes about Dignity
Don't waste words with people who deserve your silence, Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
— Mandy Hale
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
— Laurence Sterne
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
— Seneca
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
— Nikki Giovanni
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
— John Milton
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
— Samuel Johnson
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
— Pope John Paul II
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
— Joseph Heller
Jesus honored the dignity of people, whether he agreed with them or not. He would not found his kingdom on the basis of race or class or other such divisions.
— Philip Yancey
a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.
— Philip Yancey
Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about — like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.
— Philip Yancey