Quotes about Dignity

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

Treasures are directly connected to our spirit, or will, and thus to our dignity as persons. It is, for example, very important for parents to respect the "treasure space" of children. It lies right at the center of the child's soul, and great harm can be done if it is not respected and even fostered.

We demean God by considering him a cosmic boss who orders humans around

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

People are making careful, comely, dignified work of the essential tasks defined by modern values as "drudgery." And because they have thought of the well-being of all the people, all are busy. There is a use for everyone. The Amish do not have the abandoned children, cast-off old people, criminals, indigents, and vagrants whom we have "freed from drudgery." And

We will establish a new land where man can assume that every individual man—not the mass of men but individual men—has inalienable right to individual dignity and freedom within a fabric of individual courage and honorable work and mutual responsibility.

But when people age, they're not looking for a cure as much as they are for encouragement to continue. Our work here is not about curing. It's about the dignity of each person wheeled from breakfast back to their room.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Ability without honor is useless.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.