Dignity Quotes
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you`d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Never take a person`s dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.
Frank Barron
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold
Keywords: by :: dignity :: diminished :: genuine :: indifference :: is :: kind :: not :: of :: only :: others :: that :: the :: whichSubject: Apathy Quotes :: Dignity Quotes :: Indifference Quotes :: Self-confidence Quotes :: Self-love QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other`s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him
Cyril Connolly
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Bill Lovejoy
Subject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I would say that the surest measure of a man`s or a woman`s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse
Benjamin Spock
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When an individual is protesting society`s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin
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When an individual is protesting society`s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham J. Heschel
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
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Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life
Marcus Aurelius
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when all this started, I asked myself, `Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?` I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
Mitch Albom
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There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes
Subject: Love QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero
Subject: Dignity Quotes :: Honesty QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one`s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Dignity QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Dignity QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
Keywords: but :: consist :: deserving :: dignity :: does :: honors :: in :: not :: possessing :: themSubject: Dignity Quotes :: Honor QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one`s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest`s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Pope John Paul II
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
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[On his strengths and weaknesses]: "I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humour of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion.
Burt Reynolds
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It`s a tricky character, right on the edge of Uncle Remus. But, I knew how to play him right away. I knew when I read it. I just saw him -- the dignity in the character. The only time I ever worried about it was when I was doing the show Off-Broadway, and...
Morgan Freeman
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(1998 quote on auditioning) It`s hard to maintain a sense of dignity in an audition. I have done so many auditions where I`ve put it out there and have been met with that kind of blank stare - "Great! Thanks! OK! Great work! Thanks for coming in!" At the ...
Ben Stiller
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The reason why I decided to wait two years after the Bond movie, and to work with Ang Lee in a martial arts movie, is because I really believe that this genre deserves more respect and dignity than it`s ever been given. Before, people saw it as a fairy ta...
Michelle Yeoh
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[On the impact of The Godfather (1972)] "I`d gotten to know quite a few mafiosi, and all of them told me they loved the picture because I had played the Godfather with dignity. Even today I can`t pay a check in Little Italy."
Marlon Brando
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