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• Dignity: The state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect.  Oxford Dictionary
• Dignity: The importance and value that a person has, that makes other people respect them or makes them respect themselves.   Cambridge Dictionary
• Dignity: Bearing, conduct, or speech indicative of self-respect or appreciation of the formality or gravity of an occasion or situation.   Dictionary.com
• Respect,  Self-respect,  Self-worth,  Honor,  Shame,  Humiliation,  Virtue,  Greatness

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Dignity is one of the highest human values …

• Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values– honesty, integrity, self- discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. Michael DeBakey, M.D.
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… something that people have even been willing to die for

• I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing — his sense of personal dignity. Arthur Miller
• Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.  Robert Maynard

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Human rights rest on the recognition of human dignity

• The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. Emma Goldman
• Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.  Robert Maynard
• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Equality

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Dignity is a form of inner beauty

• The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within–strength, courage, dignity. Ruby Dee
• Beauty

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Dignity is essential for the human soul

• Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. Laura Hillenbrand
• Dignity is like air. When you breathe easily, you don’t think about it. But, when you don’t have enough of it, all you can think about is air, air, more air! Aigul Aubanova
• The soul

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Dignity comes from being aware of your worth

• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle
• Self-worth,  Self-esteem

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Dignity comes from treating yourself with respect

• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as being of worth and dignity. Rollo May

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If you treat yourself with dignity, you’ll tend to treat others the same way

• The way I treat myself reflects the way I treat others. When I treat myself with dignity and respect, it will be reflected in the way I treat others. If I treat myself with disdain and contempt, that will be reflected in the way I treat others. Kevin Hall

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Dignity comes from doing good because you want to, not because you are forced to

• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. Mikhail Bakunin
• Goodness

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Dignity comes from facing and overcoming your difficulties with courage

• I discover the meaning and purpose of life in the process of overcoming difficulties with dignity, courage, and faith. I am on purpose. Darren R. Weissman
• The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of the circumstances. Aristotle
• Courage

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Dignity comes from seeing the humour, especially in difficult times

• Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.  Romain Gary
• Humour,  Laughter,  Adversity

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Dignity comes from being calm and unhurried

• He who hurries cannot walk with dignity. Chinese Proverb
• Calmness,  Slow down

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Dignity comes from the choices you make

• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage. Rollo May
• Choice

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Dignity comes from finding and understanding yourself

• If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. James A. Michener
• Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world. Real Live Preacher
• Self-knowledge,  Understanding

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Dignity comes from recognising your limits but still embracing yourself and your life

• When you recognize your limits, but still embrace your life with affection and graciousness, the sense of inner dignity begins to grow. You become freer and less dependent on the affirmation of outer voices and less troubled by the negativity of others.  John O’Donohue
• Limitation

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Dignity comes from having strong values and principles

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. Laura Schlesinger
• Values,  Principles

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Dignity comes from being moral in your actions

• The most important human endeavour is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein
• Morality and ethics,  Right-action

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Dignity comes from virtue

• Virtue has a secret dignity, even with those that ridicule it. Norman Macdonald
• Virtue

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Dignity comes from honesty

• Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? Cicero
• Honesty, Integrity

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Dignity comes from having self-discipline

• Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Self-discipline,  Self-control

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Dignity comes from actions you take to make your life mean something

• What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity. Paulo Coelho
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Dignity comes from being in touch with your universal Self

• When we are in touch with our universal Self, we are immune to criticism, but responsive to feedback. This means that on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels, we feel neither beneath nor superior to anyone else. This doesn’t mean we are arrogant or cocky, but a quiet confidence and dignity radiate from us that result in a fearlessness and readiness to creatively take on any challenge. It also means we are never the victim of self- importance, knowing that all self- importance is a form of self- pity in disguise. Deepak Chopra

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Dignity comes from having enough wealth and living within your means

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. Somerset Maugham
• There is no dignity quite so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means. Calvin Coolidge
• Wealth,  Frugality

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True dignity does not come from title, position or honours

• Place confers no dignity upon some men; like a balloon, the higher they rise the smaller they look. G.D. Prentice
• True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Philip Massinger

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True dignity is the opposite of self-importance and false pride

• Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt. Joseph Bartlett
• A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. Confucius
• When boasting ends, there dignity begins. Young
• Humility,  Pride,  Arrogance

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True dignity is not diminished by the indifference of others

• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. Dag Hammarskjold
• Apathy and indifference

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True dignity is a rare thing

• The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin. Dick Francis
• Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendour, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber

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Live with dignity

• Be strong. Live honourably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on. James Frey

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Create an unshakeable sense of your own dignity and worth

• If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world… Greta Crosby
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Respect the dignity of all people, regardless of their status and beliefs

• In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. President Bill Clinton
• A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom. Fredrich Hayek
• We must build a new world, a far better world – one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. Harry S. Truman
• Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. Rick Bragg
• No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington

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Even confrontation is no reason to trample on a person’s dignity

• Confrontation should always leave a person’s dignity intact. A. J. Anglin
• Conflict management

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Perform every act of life with dignity

• Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
• The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it. Plutarch

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Don’t compromise your dignity and realise that dignity can never be taken away, only surrendered

• Dignity has no price … when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning. Jose Saramago
• One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered. Michael J. Fox

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Allow people the space and dignity to be themselves …

• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max de Pree
• Live and let live,  Tolerance

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… especially in your marriage

• I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.  Benjamin Spock
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Not everyone advocates the merits of dignity

• Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.  Elbert Hubbard
• Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.  Dave Eggers
• Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.  Edwin Percy Whipple

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Don’t allow your fear of losing dignity to stop you from taking risks

• Life awaits you on the other side of Risk. What can you lose? Face? Dignity? Who cares about those when greatness is possible? Who cares about those when fairy tales are at hand?  Neale Donald Walsch
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• Dignity: Something that can’t be preserved in alcohol.
• I left the room with silent dignity but caught my foot in the mat.  George Grossmith
• Legend is gossip that has attained the dignity of old age. Harry Oliver
• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.  L. Mencken
• Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone. Egyptian Proverb
• The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

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