Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Robert Casey

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
Sting

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
Benny Green

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
Armstrong Williams

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Richard M. Nixon

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
Debbie Stabenow

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
Mother Teresa

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Hans Kung

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Helen Garner

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko