#dignity

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness ↗

— Donald Bradman

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Dignity in a man may be more beautiful than a pretty face, but no one will ever respect his daughters. ↗

— Bauvard

#dignity #funny #humor #beauty

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#encouragement #leadership #leadership

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#dignity #fulfilling #honor #life #love

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#dignity #humanity #integrity #not-my-turn-to-die #righteousness

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#food

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#love #life

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#life #longing #poetry #pride #sense-of-wonder

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. ↗

— George Eliot

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