There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: art labor dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Tags: dignity discipline self-respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be a consumer is the most primitive level of being. It is to be a mouth, an eater, a devourer of things. To discover the truth of who we are, we must discard the consumer mentality and reclaim our spiritual dignity. —David Frawley More about this quote Tags: spirituality discovery dignity consumer mouth mentality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As you press on with justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapons of love. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: justice love dignity discipline Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man — these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. . . . History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own. —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. More about this quote Tags: history society heroism dignity leadership surrender decision submission hero worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity. —Julie Garwood in Prince Charming More about this quote Tags: dignity wealth self-respect possessions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. —Booker T. Washington More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? —Cicero More about this quote Tags: honesty dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. —Dag Hammarskjöld More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. —Michael J. Fox More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. —Ovid More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email