Quotes about Dignity

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Tulajdonképpen nem abban van a különbség, hogy az ember hogy viselkedik, hanem hogy az emberrel hogyan viselkednek. Én Higgins professzor úr számára mindig csak egy virágoslány maradok, mert Ã…' mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy virágoslánnyal. De maga elÃ…'tt úrinÃ…' lehetek, mert maga mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy úrinÃ…'vel.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.