Quotes
Quotes about Dignity
Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
The dignity of history.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.
