Mark Twain Quotes

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Man is worth more for what he is than for what he has.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

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

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.