Quotes about Dignity
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 Swindoll
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
— Paulo Coelho
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
— Ernest Hemingway
Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".
— John Wooden
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
— Samuel Johnson
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
— GK Chesterton
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
— William Hazlitt
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.
— John Adams
The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity
— Mahatma Gandhi
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
— Publilius Syrus
I would assume my father would support anything that lifted up and created opportunities for 'the least of these.'
— Martin Luther King III