Dignity Quotes - Page 39

• It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Art, Society

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.562, Vintage

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• Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

  Seneca the Younger

  Increase

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (letter CI), circa 65 AD.

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• The dignity of man into your hands is given;
  Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller (1839). “Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller”, p.222

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• Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Limits, Fields

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• You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Gay, Dark

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• Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Smile, Patience, Degrees

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.302, Oxford University Press

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• Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

  Alfred de Musset

  Vanity, Vulnerable, Vain

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• Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

  P. D. James

  Retirement, People, Unemployment

  P. D. James (2012). “Original Sin”, p.77, Vintage

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• If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Honesty, Party, Army

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• The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He must do spectacular things. He must not be punctilious about dignity, decorum and other refinements characteristic of the real British gentleman. The Yankee pictured by the Briton must be a bustler. If he is occasionally flagrantly indiscreet in speech and action, then he is so much more surely stamped the genuine article. The most typical American the British ever set their eyes on was, in their judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

  B. C. Forbes

  Real, Eye, America

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• . . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Fun, Communication

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Self, Law

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• As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Communication, Men, Artist

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• Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Doctors, Answers, Fool

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• Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Character, Exercise, Thinking

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• Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Pride, Ice, May

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• Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.

  Joseph Hertz

  Teaching, Dedication, Israel

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Morning Service: Preliminaries (p. 28),

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• Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

  Christina Baldwin

  Sacred, Sparks, Way

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Morality

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• Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

  Desmond Tutu

  Live Life, Feels, Inferiors

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• We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Home, Land

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• If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Space, Mind, Astronomy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Differences, Two

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.

  Louis Riel

  Intelligent

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