Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
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
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
Vanna Bonta
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
Robert Maynard
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Denis Diderot
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness.
Francis Bacon
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Barbara Levy Boxer
It is not funny that anything else should fall down, only that a man should fall down ... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton