201 quotes found
“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”
“[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theor...”
“This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we...”
“Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.”
“It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by the simplest of all tests. No ruler would deliberately dress up in the recognized fetters of a sl...”
“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”
“Is there a way," she wrote in closing, "to dignify sex, make it as complicated as we are, to make it not grotesque?”
“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, hav...”
“the quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought”
“To lead by force all you need is a greater army, but to lead by example, to be a city on a hill, you need an uncompromising respect for basic dignity. And you don't gain either of those things by b...”
“What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.”
“My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour.”
“Nothing is so essential as dignityTime will reveal who has it and who has it not.”
“The value of trust is very much like the value of dignity.”
“The most enduring relationship we can have, is the one we have with our self. It is the foundation of everything. Respect for self is the basis for self-love. Value and love yourself with dignity b...”
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renoun...”
“Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.”
“I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he is, you love him ...”
“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?No, not exactly. It canno...”
“The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.”
