#dignity

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. ↗

— Jose Marti

#deeds #dignity #evaporate #famous #few

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

#based #being #beings #dignity #emotion

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ↗

— Herman Melville

#leisure #talk #work

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#comes #compromises #dignity #human #human dignity

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ↗

— James A. Michener

#dignity #find #happens #himself #his

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#dignity #every #every man #hand #head

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

#any #aspire #battle #better #better life

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

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He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity. ↗

— Don King

#day #dignity #for the day #people #worked