Dignity Quotes

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Dag Hammarskjold

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Bill Hybels

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn

Philip Massinger

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Owen D. Young

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity

Ellen Key

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance

Elbert Hubbard

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Paul Claudel

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Tennessee Williams

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurber

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

Chiang Kai-Shek

Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head;dignity won't allow him to bow it down.

Madagasy Proverb

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Luigi Pirandello