Dignity

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  • Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
        Confucious   Best?
  • Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
        Unknown   Best?
  • If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever!
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
        Henri-Frédéric Amiel   Best?
  • Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
        Jane Adams   Best?
  • I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
        Austin L. Sorensen   Best?
  • Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?
  • It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
        Asoka   Best?
  • Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
        Ovid   Best?
  • If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
        Fyodor Dostoevsky   Best?
  • The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  • Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
        Philip Crosby   Best?
  • Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
        Clint Eastwood   Best?
  • The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
        Homer   Best?
  • The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
        Jerry Falwell   Best?
  • There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
        Ross MacDonald   Best?
  • WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
        Lord Byron   Best?
  • Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
        Thomas Paine   Best?

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