Dignity Quotes

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.

I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.