Quotes about Dignity

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

Furthermore, if our views of justice and morality were nothing more than neurochemistry hardwired into us, then we would lose the right to be morally outraged at such things as genocide, rape, murder, and racism. When we deny the dignity of humanity as created in God's image, we saw off the branch upon which we sit to defend it.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.