Dignity And Strength Quotes

• I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.

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  William J. Clinton

  School   Cities   People  

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1413, Best Books on

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• Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

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  Orison Swett Marden

  Eye   Character   Men  

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.132, e-artnow

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• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

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  Robert Genn

  Music   Joy   Phrases  

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• The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

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  Ruby Dee

  Strength   Inspiring   Beauty  

  "Rhodessa Jones: Ruby Dee a guiding light for social change" by Rhodessa Jones, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2014.

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• What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

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  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Responsibility   Hands   Dignity  

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• Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

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  James Frey

  Inspirational   Strength   Inspiring  

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• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

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  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational   Strength   Success  

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