Quotes about Dignity
Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.
— Eugene Peterson
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
— GK Chesterton
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
— Joseph Addison
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
— Herman Melville
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.
— John Maxwell
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
— Mother Teresa
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
— Pope John Paul II
It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.
— William Wordsworth