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“What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.”

Giving Should Trying Leader Advice Listening Adults Dignity Treats Complaining Teenager Listeners Always Trying Good Listener Future Leaders Dignity And Respect

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I think as we look at this problem of ISIS, it's more than just an army. It's also a fight about ideas. And we have got to dry up their recruiting. We have got to dry up their fundraising. The way we intend to do it is to humiliate them, to divorce them from any nation giving them protection, and humiliating their message of hatred, of violence. Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. They have - they cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity.”

Thinking Giving Children Problem Fighting Religious Violence Dignity Hatred Army Divorce Protection Humiliating Humiliate

Author:James Mattis

“When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our basic dignity." The biggest misery in the world, I believe, is the feeling of being unloved, and that this community faces a lot. You're not even considered to be human. You're considered transparent. We were ignored until we started organizing, when HIV first became a factor. Even in the HIV world, people could not believe that hijras have sex. And then also we were put in the category of men having sex with men, the gay community.”

People Men World Giving Believe Feelings I Believe Community Gay Dignity Misery Activism Ignored Unloved

Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

“A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.”

Giving Dignity Islam Remarkable Human Dignity Illiterate

Author:Bernard Lewis

“Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.”

Giving Trying Democracy Tradition Dignity Islam Foolishness Human Dignity

Author:Bernard Lewis

“We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.”

Needs Giving Sleep Our Lives Pride Eating Dignity Live By

Author:Yoko Ono

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings

“Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?”

Giving Believe Persons Reason Sacrifice Students Dignity Mental Health Psychological Worthwhile Dignity Of Work

Author:Sargent Shriver

“I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.”

People Thinking Giving God Dignity

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.”

Ifs Giving May States Enough Certain Dignity Give Me Get Up Hats Someday Feminine Funeral Attending

Author:Erma Bombeck

“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”

Way Giving Humans Important Use Body Nature Race Support Resources Garden Dignity Available Human Race Gardener Rejoining

Author:Wendell Berry

“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.”

Thinking Men Giving May Happens Individual Left Strong Moral Doubt Dignity Valuable Trusted Units Coattails

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.”

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The most important human endeavor 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.”

Life Giving Humans Important Action Existence Self Esteem Depends Balance Morality Ethics Dignity Strive Endeavor Our Actions Ethics And Morals

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on”

Giving Matter Games Attitude Dignity No Matter What Maximum Pawns

Book:The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

Source: The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“The most important human endeavor 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. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished”

Giving Humans Littles Doe Dies Common Silence Dignity Touched Restraint Human Experience

Author:Djuna Barnes

“Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.”

Knows Giving Littles Different Advantage Dignity Give Me Absurd Heroic Nicole Gallant

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.”

Giving Said Dignity Excuse Stealing Insult Excuse Me

Author:Julie Anne Peters

“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal”

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor”

Ifs Giving Mother Victory Dignity Accomplished Submit Small Victories

Author:Terry Goodkind

“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”

Giving Remember Honor Dignity Defeat Dues Defeated Disgrace Ender

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.”

Giving Happens Running Jobs Effort Quality Particular Dignity Intelligence Corporations Do The Best

Author:James Cash Penney

“Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.”

“Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.”

Giving Stills Ability Humility Pride Giving Up Dignity Pride And Humility Dignity And Pride

Author:Vanna Bonta

“I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition.”

People Want Giving Stills Values Passion Justice Greater Identity Dignity Slavery Dear Human Rights Love Life Contempt Humiliation My Passion Turkish Inquisition I Love Life

Book:Writings from Prison

Source: Writings from Prison

“One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.”

Life Giving May Character Running Certain Fighting Challenges Forever Return Losing Dignity Meetings Outcomes Defeated Assurance Signing Warrants

Author:Sigurd F. Olson

“A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.”

People Knows Giving Mean Important Pride Dignity Important Things Symbols Eagles Aztec

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”

Giving Energy Sleep Military Victory Dignity Vigilance Rashness

Book:Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln

“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”

Giving Humans Law Order Atheism Possibility Dignity Positive Atheism Lawyer Confusion Make Sense Human Life Scope

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do and what not to do. It never gives you any commandments. It simply gives you a technique for becoming more aware, for being more alert, watchful, witnessing.”

Giving Doe Character Consciousness Meditation Becoming Needed Conscience Dignity Function Technique Commandments Becoming More

Author:Rajneesh

“Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cultivated by others, by the vested interests, by the establishment. Consciousness is yours. It is individual, it is not collective. Conscience is part of the mob psychology. Consciousness gives you dignity because it gives you individuality. It gives you rebellion, it makes you capable of saying yes or no of your own accord. There is no foreign agency manipulating you in the name of religion, morality, etcetera.”

“So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.”

World Giving Humans Enough Political Social Justice Leader Movement Mass Dignity Social Justice Terrorism Dictatorship Human Dignity Idealistic Political Movements

Author:Thomas Sowell

“My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.”

Giving Trying Has Beens Done Spirit Games Simple Sadness Team Pride Approach Dignity Cricket Playing Cricket Giving Everything

Author:Rahul Dravid

“What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!”

Ifs Giving Looks Kind Balance Creatures Dignity Faults Relative Banking Bankers Old Lady

Book:Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author

Source: Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author

“If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation.”

Ifs Knows Life Needs Giving Life Is Purpose Rooms Worry Eternal Dignity Eternity This Life Preparation Linked Fleeting Prelude Furnishings

Author:Minot Judson Savage

“Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.”

Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

“It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.”

World Giving Writing Mean Ideas Self Nations Possibility Poet Honor Giving Up Glory Dignity Settling Prophet Hopeless Resolution Impress Express Yourself Settling Down

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.”

Men Giving Reason Voice Wise Advice Fame Dignity Importance Grateful Faults Appearance Folly Temporary Virtuous Superiority Neighbour Being Wise Elevation Detection High Prices Insensible

Author:Samuel Johnson

“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.”

Source: Leadership is an Art

“Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives.”

“The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.”

Giving Humans Book Stories Law Memories Our Lives Empathy Dignity Ancient Radical Human Life Torah Embarking Jewish Law

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.”

Way Giving Liberty Security Giving Up Dignity Airline Demeaning Airline Security

Author:Quico Canseco

“The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.”

“Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers”

Giving Humans Country Human Beings Deserve Dignity Workers Labour Assets Migrants

Author:Juan Somavia

“If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.”

Ifs Giving Persons Matter Jobs Capable Determination Dignity Importance No Matter What Firm

Author:Hortense Odlum

“Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.”

“It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"”

“I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.”

Source: Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology

“Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.”

Giving Heart Dignity Opening

Author:John de Ruiter