642 Quotes About Dignity

She promised herself that she was not going to cry. They could take her job, but they would not take her dignity.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is this: If they care they will go out of their way to learn the truth. If they don't then they really don't value you as a human being. The moment you have to sell people on who you are is the moment you let yourself believe that every good thing you have ever done or accomplished was invisible to the world. And, it is not!

When we feel anger and we use it well, that gives us huge dignity. When we feel fear and we use it well, it saves our lives. When we feel shame and we use it well, it gives us humility.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

If you are allowing someone to lift you up with praise and compliments, you are giving them power to throw you down with blame and insults.

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

People treat you the way you treat yourself. So, when you humiliate yourself, they make sure you get the same treatment.

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.