Dignity Quotes

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

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn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

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

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

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

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.

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

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone
Egyptian Proverb

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

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it
Christina of Sweden

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

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
Robert Maynard

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young

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

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







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