Showing posts with label Dignity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dignity. Show all posts

Want Security?

“If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They will have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Root of Discipline

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

A True Measure

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
--Ann Landers

Deserving Dignity

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”
--Aristotle