Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Dignity Quotes
AcceptanceAutonomyDignity I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
DignityHonorRespect It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
ConfidenceCourageDignitySelf Respect Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
DignityFreedomHeritageHistorical InjusticeRacial Identity Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
DignityHealthcareMedicareProtectionSecurity I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
AppreciationCritiqueDignityLaborSocial Perspective Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
DignityFreedomHuman Spirit Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Decision MakingDignityHonorIntegritySacrifice It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
DignityHonorIntegrityMoral ConvictionRespect One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
DignityNational StrengthPrestigeRevolutionary SpiritSports Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country's prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.
DignityEqualityRights I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
DignityFamilyIdentityRespectSelf-assertion My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.
DignityEducationHumanityImprovementSelf Respect Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
Christian LifeDignityHumilitySpiritualityVirtue All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
DignityHumanityMoralityRespectWomen I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
DignityHumilityLeadershipRefinementVirtue The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
DegradationDignityOppressionStruggle Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
AffectionCompletionDignityFarewellResignation Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
CourageDignityFreedomResistance I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees! (*often attributed to Washington, but cannot be confirmed).