“If you can see a positive side to everything, you’ll be able to live a much richer life than other.”
-— Unknown
“There is dignity in being of service.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors,but in deserving them.”
— Aristotle
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked,but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
– Michael J. Fox (afflicted with Parkinson’s disease at age 30)
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
— Grover Cleveland
“Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.”
— Anne Sophie Swetchine
“Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities.Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.”
— Mother Teresa
“The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.”
— Edward Bellamy
“Trust love to prevail in all things. It is the most powerful force in the Universe.”
— William DeFoore
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard
“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”
— Horace Mann
“If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, ‘there goes another day of my life, never to return,’ you will become time conscious.”
— A. B. Zu Tavern